The Refectory in the Refectory Church, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (explored)
This is the refectory or dining room itself of the Refectory Church in the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The roof murals are very modern, painted at some point between 2013 and 2017 as far as I can tell.
The Refectory Church of St Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk (Ukrainian: Трапезний собор Антонія і Феодосія Печерських) is the youngest church of the vast Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, built in 1895. The building was damaged in the scorched earth demolition of the centre of Kyiv carried out by the Red Army as Nazi German occupiers prepared to enter it in 1941. Repair and restoration works on the facades were generally completed in 1956, and the interior was restored in 1976-80.
Since 1990, the church has held regular services and since 1992, it has been the cathedral of Kyiv for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople.
Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kyiv-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Onufrius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and the Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine.
The Refectory in the Refectory Church, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (explored)
This is the refectory or dining room itself of the Refectory Church in the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The roof murals are very modern, painted at some point between 2013 and 2017 as far as I can tell.
The Refectory Church of St Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk (Ukrainian: Трапезний собор Антонія і Феодосія Печерських) is the youngest church of the vast Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, built in 1895. The building was damaged in the scorched earth demolition of the centre of Kyiv carried out by the Red Army as Nazi German occupiers prepared to enter it in 1941. Repair and restoration works on the facades were generally completed in 1956, and the interior was restored in 1976-80.
Since 1990, the church has held regular services and since 1992, it has been the cathedral of Kyiv for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople.
Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kyiv-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Onufrius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and the Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine.