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The Great Church of the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves by Vasily Vereshchagin (1905). The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also referred to as the Holy Dormition Church (Temple) or the Great Church, is the main cathedral of the monastery complex.
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra [1] [2] or Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kyiv.
The Gate Church of the Trinity was built in 1106-1108, as part of the Pechersk Lavra fortification, atop the main entrance to the monastery.The church was founded by the grandson of the Prince of Chernigov, Sviatoslav II, who renounced his princely status and became a Pechersk monk on November 17, 1106 under the name of Mykola Sviatosha. [1]
View of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from the Dnepr River currently. The Mykolaiv Cathedral, where the liturgy was first performed in 1919, no longer exists. The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the most commonly performed liturgy in the Eastern Church. [4]
Ukraine’s counter-intelligence service, police and the country's National Guard on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 searched the Pechersk Lavra monastic complex, one of the most famous Orthodox Christian ...
The Refectory Church (Ukrainian: Трапезна церква, Trapezna tserkva; Russian: Трапезная церковь, Trapeznaya tserkov) is a building composed of a refectory and an adjoining church of Saint Anthony and Theodosius of the medieval cave monastery of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
The Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine is the sacred archimandrite of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Michael's Golden-Top Monastery, and other monasteries of special historical significance, and heads the metropolitan stauropegions.
The Church of the Saviour at Berestove (Ukrainian: Церква Спаса на Берестові, romanized: Tserkva Spasa na Berestovi) is a church located immediately north of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in an area known as Berestove.