Cave monastery

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

[edit] List of cave monasteries

• Armenia
  • Geghard cave monastery/fortress
• Bulgaria
  • Aladzha Monastery
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Monasteries of Provadia
• France
  • Abbey of Saint-Roman (Abbaye de Saint-Roman), Beaucaire, Gard [1]
• Georgia
  • David Gareja monastery complex
  • Vardzia cave city and monastery,
  • Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
• Hungary
  • Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest.
• Russia
  • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
  • Monastery of the Caves (Pechyorsky), Nizhny Novgorod
• Thailand
  • Tiger Cave Monastery (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
  • Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
• Turkey
  • Cappadocia cave monasteries
• Ukraine
  • Assumption Cave Monastery and St. Clement Monastery, Inkerman, Crimea
  • Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery
  • Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne near Volodymyr-Volynskyi
  • Bakota Cave Monstary in Bakota near Kamianets-Podilskyi

[edit] See also

• Monolithic architecture
• Monolithic church
• Indian rock-cut architecture

[edit] 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.