A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities.
List of cave monasteries[]
- Armenia
- Geghard cave monastery/fortress
- Bulgaria
- Aladzha Monastery
- Albotin Monastery
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Basarbovo Monastery
- 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.
- Serbia
- Blagoveštenje
- Crna Reka
- Pećinska
- Gornjak
- Kađenica
- Savina
- Monastery of St. Peter
- Churches of Kovilje Monastery
- Russia
- Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
- Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
- Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast
- 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
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.
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