The Kiev Pechersk Lavra is a major Orthodox monastery located in Kiev, Ukraine, also referred to as the Monastery of the Kiev Caves. Founded in 1051 AD, during the times of Kievan Rus' (a medieval ...

KIEV, UKRAINE — The workers standing on ladders at one of the Monastery of the Caves’ churches weren’t fixing it up for visitors to Ukraine’s top tourist draw -- they were trying to keep ...

An aerial photo shows the thousand-year-old Monastery of Caves, also known as Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the holiest site of Eastern Orthodox Christians, taken through morning fog during a sunrise in ...

The Monastery of the Caves draws pilgrims from around the world. The complex is home to dozens of bodies -- some centuries old -- of priests, some of whom have been beatified and made saints.

Since March 29, according to instructions from the Kiev Ministry of Culture, eviction operations have been underway at the Kiev Monastery (Lavra) of the Caves, the original monastery of all the ...

At the Monastery of the Caves, which has become the epicenter of the religious discord affecting the whole of Ukraine, religious leader Oleksandr Bejenar explained that, while relations with the ...

Archimandrite Avraamii of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the acting Abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), has said that the brethren are praying for Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Worshipers and clergy gather to celebrate Palm Sunday at Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine's most revered Orthodox site in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 9, 2023.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called 7 January a historic day for the spiritual independence of Ukraine and stressed that no one would ever again make Ukrainian culture alien in the Kyiv-Pechersk ...

Amid a large police deployment and scores of faithful praying, pro-Moscow Patriarchate monks have started to move out equipment from the monastery complex after the Ukrainian government ultimatum for ...