Since that time the monastery began to prosper and it grew as the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The currently known layout of the monastery was created in the 18-19th century. During the reign of Peter the ...

Over time, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra grew to include more churches ... “For centuries, the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery, with relics of saints buried in caves, has been one of the most important ...

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 ...

The fight over the monastery reflects the larger split between ... But Metropolitan Pavlo, the former abbot of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, has been under house arrest since April 1 for charges ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 expel them ...

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 ministry noted ...

Kyiv gave three days to the monks of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra ... terminate the lease agreement for the monastery's facilities. The abbot of the ...

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 ...