List of cave monasteries







Vardzia Cave Monastery (Georgia)


A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Anthony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave.




  • Albania


    • Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë, Albania.


    • St. Mary's Church, cave church in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake




  • Armenia

    • Geghard cave monastery/fortress



  • Bulgaria

    • Aladzha Monastery

    • Albotin Monastery

    • Basarbovo Monastery

    • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

    • Cave monasteries of Krepcha

    • Monasteries of Provadia

    • Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen

    • Cave monasteries of Tervel




  • Ethiopia
    • Monolithic church


  • Iraq


    • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh

    • Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh




  • France

    • Abbey of Saint-Roman, Beaucaire, Gard[1]



  • Georgia

    • David Gareja monastery complex


    • Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau


    • Vardzia cave city and monastery




  • Hungary

    • Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest



  • Macedonia

    • Kališta Monastery, Struga



  • Romania
    • Basarabi Cave Complex



  • Russia


    • Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod


    • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast


    • Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast




  • Serbia

    • Blagoveštenje

    • Crna Reka

    • Gornjak

    • Kađenica

    • Churches of Kovilje Monastery


    • Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, also known as the Cave Church, 14th-century church in Lukovo


    • Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Rsovci, where was painted a unique fresco of bald Jesus

    • Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški

    • Savina




  • Thailand


    • Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province


    • Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi




  • Turkey


    • Cappadocia cave monasteries

    • Cave monastery of İnceğiz

    • Church of Saint Peter




  • Ukraine


    In the Kitaev Poustinia, Kiev




    • Assumption Cave Monastery and Inkerman Cave Monastery in the Crimea


    • Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne, near Volodymyr-Volynskyi

    • Bakota Cave Monastery in Bakota, near Kamianets-Podilskyi


    • Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery





See also



  • Indian rock-cut architecture

  • Monolithic architecture

  • Monolithic church



References



  • "Mysteries of caves in the Chernigov area", and article in Zerkalo Nedeli, (the Mirror Weekly), January, 2004, available online in Russian and in Ukrainian




  1. ^ Abbey of Saint-Roman Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine









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