Over time, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra grew to include more churches, residences for monks, and a labyrinth of subterranean caves and passages, dug deep into the hillside, with icons, crypts, and ...

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 ...

How the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra has changed after the expulsion of the Moscow Patriarchate, whether it can reclaim the shrine, what will happen to the frescoes that carry pro-Russian narratives, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dormition Cathedral and Feast Church of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a historic Kyiv monastery also known as the Monastery of the Caves, have been repossessed by the state, following the expiration of ...

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 ...