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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The golden-domed cathedral, of huge cultural and religious significance, sits on a high hill in the centre of Kyiv by the river Dnipro, and forms part of the 980-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra ...

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 ...

Against the backdrop of Russia's war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has been ordered by the government to leave the vast 980-year old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery complex by the ...

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 sprawling Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves, is a cradle of Christian Orthodoxy for both Russians and Ukrainians. Moscow-aligned monks controlled the holy site for decades, and ...

An aerial view of the Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 13, 2020.