KYIV, Ukraine — The walls and golden domes of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — or the Monastery of the Caves — have stood for centuries in the center of the Ukrainian capital.

The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is one of the most important Orthodox sanctuaries. It has seen many tragic pages in its nearly 1000-year history. Enemies ravaged the Lavra, the Uniates attempted to seize it ...

2 The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is a nearly 1,000-year-old monastery complex in the center of the Ukrainian capital. A lavra is a monastery that includes cells for hermits, while pechersk means “of ...

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 ...

Ukrainian authorities will inspect and seal five buildings of lower part of the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in the capital, the Culture Ministry informed on July 4.

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Metropolitan Pavel, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra rector, has said that preparations for an attack on the monastery are now underway, the Ukrainian news outlet Strana has reported.

MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Monks from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will not leave the monastery, neither in the upcoming days, nor at any other time, because Ukrainian authorities have no legal right to ...

The reason was an announcement on March 10 by the Zelensky government that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) would have to relinquish control of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, a large monastery ...

A billboard in Paris is allegedly promoting the sale of precious icons that have been removed from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery. Many social media users are accusing Ukraine of selling these ...

Kyiv gave three days to the monks of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr ...

Force will not be used to evict representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy ...