CAVE MONASTERY

A 'cave monastery' is basically a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities.

Contents

List of cave monasteries

See also

References

List of cave monasteries

★ Armenia

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★ Geghard cave monastery/fortress

★ Bulgaria

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★ Aladzha Monastery

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★ Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

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★ Monasteries of Provadia

★ Georgia

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★ David Gareja monastery complex

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★ Vardzia cave city and monastery,

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★ Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau

★ Hungary

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★ Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest.

★ Russia

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★ Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast

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★ Monastery of the Caves (Pechersky), Nizhny Novgorod

★ Thailand

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★ Tiger Cave Monastery (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi

★ Turkey

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★ Cappadocia cave monasteries

★ Ukraine

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★ Assumption Cave Monastery and St. Clement Monastery, Inkerman, Crimea

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★ Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery

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★ Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne near Volodymyr-Volynskyi

See also

★ Monolithic architecture

★ Monolithic church

★ Indian rock-cut architecture

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.