the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves), Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, has said that he hoped that believers would be able to protect the monastery ...

Preserve the monastery, so that no defilement would ever touch it, so that what happened during the twentieth century—and not only the twentieth century (there were many trials other times, too)—would ...

Lesnoe cemetery came into being during the 1960’s, when Abbess Antonia of the Florov Ascension Monastery brought money to ... Metropolitan Philaret (Amphiteatrov †1857) of Kiev, whose relics are now ...

He stated that the letter, sent by the "Kiev Pechersk Lavra" State Reserve, demanding that the monks leave the monastery does not constitute legal basis for their expulsion: that would require a ...

All the rooms in the monastery were either carved out of the mountain or existing caves made into rooms. All the walls and the roof are made of rocks. Hence, the locals call the monastery Takthok ...