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
  • St. Mary's Church, Maligrad, cave monastery in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake.
• Armenia
  • Geghard cave monastery/fortress
• Bulgaria
  • Aladzha Monastery
  • Albotin Monastery
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Basarbovo Monastery
  • Cave monasteries of Krepcha
  • Monasteries of Provadia
  • Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen
  • Cave monasteries of Tervel
• Ethiopia
  • Lalibela
  • Rock Hewn Church
• France
  • Abbey of Saint-Roman (Abbaye de Saint-Roman), Beaucaire, Gard
• 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.
• Macedonia
  • Kališta Monastery, Struga
• Serbia (See List of Serbian monasteries)
  • Blagoveštenje
  • Crna Reka
  • 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 unique fresco of bald Jesus
  • Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški
  • Gornjak
  • Kađenica
  • Savina
  • Monastery of St. Peter
  • Churches of Kovilje Monastery
• Romania
  • Basarabi Cave Complex
• Russia
  • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
  • Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
  • Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast
• Thailand
  • Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
  • Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
• Turkey
  • Cappadocia cave monasteries
• Ukraine

In the Kitaev Poustinia, Kiev

• • Assumption Cave Monastery and Inkerman Cave Monastery in the Crimea
  • Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery
  • Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne near Volodymyr-Volynskyi
  • Bakota Cave Monstary in Bakota near Kamianets-Podilskyi

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.
• Abbey of Saint-Roman website.