Earlier on Monday, members of the radical Ukrainian organization S14 blocked the entrance to the caves of the world-famous Kiev Pechersk Laura, also known as the Monastery of the Caves KIEV ...

KIEV, December 14. /TASS/. Abbot of the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), Metropolitan Paul, has called accusations against him of organizing protests aimed at ...

Samtskhe-Javakheti was a key winemaking region in Georgia until invading Ottoman Turks destroyed the region's ancient, terraced vineyards in the 16th century. Now, locals are trying to restore ...

Phugtal Gompa, also known as Phugtal Monastery or Phuktal Gompa, is a Buddhist monastery located in the remote Zanskar region ...

A monastery dedicated to the ‘beloved disciple' was founded there in the late 10th century and it has been a place of pilgrimage and Greek Orthodox learning ever since. The fine monastic complex ...

Monastic life in Sretensky Monastery, closed by the Bolsheviks in 1925, was renewed in 1994, fifteen years ago. It was first re-opened as a metochion of the Pskov-Caves Monastery. The story of the ...

All the rooms in the monastery were either carved out of the mountain or existing caves made into rooms. All the walls and the roof are made of rocks. Hence, the locals call the monastery Takthok ...

In line with this effort, the Ministry of Culture established a special commission to inventory and evaluate the sacred relics stored in the monastery's Near and Far Caves. The commission's ...

All the rooms in the monastery were either carved out of the mountain or existing caves made into rooms. All the walls and the roof are made of rocks. Hence, the locals call the monastery Takthok ...