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 Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, founded in the 10th century, became a flashpoint this year after Ukrainian authorities ordered the UOC to leave the complex, ...

The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is a world famous spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and a popular site of pilgrimage and tourism. Being situated in the town of Sergiev Posad about 70 km ...

The main temple of the Sviatohirsk Lavra is on fire after a Russian attack in Donetsk Oblast, a Ukrainian adviser said.; A video of the temple, a monastery on the Seversky Donets River, engulfed ...

The lavra was founded in 1051 and is the spiritual home of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. It fell into disrepair during the Soviet era. The Holy Dormition cathedral was turned into an anti-religious ...

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 ...

Protesters hold placards reading "Moscow shaman - get out of the Sacred Lavra!," left, and "Moscow priests - get out of Ukraine!," right, at the entrance to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv on ...

1 This March 14 photo shows Ukrainian soldiers passing a monk in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra as tensions mount over a March 29 deadline for clerics to leave the property. The clergy have declared they ...

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 ...

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was declared a “State historical and cultural reserve” in 1926 and Saint-Sophia Cathedral with Related Monastic buildings in 1934. The property is managed according to the relevant ...

Built into a high bank of the Seversky Donets River in eastern Ukraine, the Svyatogorsk Lavra is seen as one of the three most sacred sites in Ukraine for Orthodox believers. Before the war, it ...