This is a fine example of a working Orthodox monastery, with military features that are typical of the 15th to the 18th century, the period during which it developed. The main church of the Lavra, 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 ...

One of the most well-known paintings of the Greek War of Independence is by Theodoros Vryzakis, and depicts Palaion Patron ...

MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Ukrainian law enforcement officials have begun an operation to seize buildings inside the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery where monks and pilgrims live, the canonical ...

On Friday, the Monastery website published a warning from Acting CEO of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra Reserve, demanding that Ukrainian Orthodox Church monks leave the monastery due to invalidation of ...

Maxym Ostapenko, the acting director of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve, said that the commission received an official response from the monastery which had promised to grant access to ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...