The Men’s Monastery of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is a community in the Kypiache tract in Polissia, about four kilometres from the settlement of Chopovychi in the Malyn district of the Zhytomyr region, on the l…
The Horodnytskyi St George Stauropegial Men’s Monastery stands on the bank of the Sluch river in the village of Horodnytsia , Zhytomyr Oblast. Its history runs from a wooden church of the 1774 and a women’s community of…
The Ovruch St Basil Monastery is a women’s community in the town of Ovruch in the Zhytomyr region, restored in 1991 . Its heart is the renowned St Basil Church — a unique monument of pre-Mongol Rus, built around 1190 by…
The Transfiguration Tryhirskyi Men’s Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries of the Zhytomyr region, situated on the rocky bank of the Teteriv river in the village of Tryhiria . Its history spans more than four centu…
The Zhytomyr Monastery of St Anastasia of Rome is a stauropegial women’s monastery on the outskirts of Zhytomyr, in the Maliovanka district. Opened in 1999 , it became the first women’s monastery in the city’s history .…
The monasteries of Ukraine number more than five and a half hundred active houses, from the cave lavras of the princely era to modern sketes in the Carpathians. This article…
