Earth:List of cave monasteries

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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
  • Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë
  • St. Mary's Church, cave church in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake
• Armenia
  • Geghard cave monastery/fortress
• Bulgaria
  • Aladzha Monastery
  • Albotin Monastery
  • Basarbovo Monastery
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Cave monasteries of Krepcha
  • Monasteries of Provadia
  • Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen
  • Cave monasteries of Tervel
• Ethiopia
  • Monolithic church
• France
  • Abbey of Saint-Roman, Beaucaire, Gard
• Georgia
  • David Gareja monastery complex
  • Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
  • Vardzia cave city and monastery
• Greece
  • various cave hermitages at Meteora
  • various cave hermitages at Mount Athos
    • caves at Karoulia
  • Monastery of Saint Mark, Petroussa (bg)
• Hungary
  • Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest
• Iraq
  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh
  • Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh
• Israel
  • Qumran Caves, once inhabited by the Essenes
• North Macedonia
  • Kališta Monastery, Struga
• Romania
  • Basarabi Cave Complex
  • Corbii de Piatră
  • Nămăiești
• Russia
  • Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
  • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
  • Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast
• Serbia
  • Blagoveštenje
  • Crna Reka
  • Gornjak
  • Kađenica
  • Churches of Kovilje Monastery
  • 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 a unique fresco of bald Jesus
  • Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški
  • Savina
• Thailand
  • Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
  • Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
• Turkey
  • Cappadocia cave monasteries
  • Cave monastery of İnceğiz
  • Church of Saint Peter
• Ukraine
  

  A cell in the caves of Kytaiv Pustyn monastery
  • Assumption Cave Monastery and Inkerman Cave Monastery in the Crimea
  • Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne, near Volodymyr
  • Bakota Cave Monastery in Bakota, near Kamianets-Podilskyi
  • Eletsky Monastery in Chernihiv
  • Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and Kytaiv Pustyn (uk), Kyiv

In Bulgaria

Northeast Bulgaria

• Rock monasteries near Ruse
  • Basarbovo Monastery
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Great Nisovo Rock Monastery (Голям Нисовски скален манастир), near Nisovo village
  • Tabachka Cave Church, near Tabachka village
  • Rock monasteries near Cherven village
    • Malkiya Rai Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Малкия Рай“)
    • Koshuta Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Кошута“)
    • Golemiya Rai Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Големия рай“)
    • Moskov Dol Rock Church (Скална църква „Москов Дол“)
  • Krepcha Rock Monastery (Крепченски скален манастир), near Krepcha village
• Rock monasteries near Tervel
  • Rock monasteries near Balik and Onogur villages
    • Asar Evleri Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Асар евлери“)
    • Gyaur Evleri Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Гяур евлери“)
    • Sandakli Maara Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Сандъкли маара“)
    • Tarapanata Rock Monastery (Скална обител „Тарапаната“)
  • Valchanova Staya Rock Hermitage (Скален скит „Вълчанова стая“), near Brestnitsa village
• Barbino Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Върбино“), near Varbino village
• Haidushki Kashti Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Хайдушки къщи“), near Kolobar village

Provadiya river valley

Rock monasteries situated in and around the Provadiya river valley:

• Rock monasteries on the Shumen Plateau
  • Osmar monasteries, near Osmar village
  • Trinity (Troitsa) monasteries, near Troitsa village
  • Hankrumovski Monastery, near Han Krum (Hankrum) village
  • Divdyadovski Monastery, near Divdiyadovo village
  • a 14th-century rock-hewn church on the northwestern edge of Shumen city
• Rock monasteries near Nevsha
  • Gyurebahcha Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Гюребахча“)
• Petricha Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Петрича“), near Razdelna, Varna Province
• Kisheshlika Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Кишешлика“), near Avren, Varna Province
• Rock monasteries around Provadia
  • Shashkanite Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Шашкъните“)
  • Chukara Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Чукара“)
  • Holy Archangel Gabriel Rock Chapel (Скален параклис „Св. Архангел Гавраил“)
  • Sara Kaya Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Саръ кая“)
  • Kara Cave Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Кара пещера“), just north of Manastir village
  • Rock monasteries near Petrov Dol village
    • St. George Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Свети Георги“)
    • Golyamata / Big Rock Monastery (Seven Chambers / Hodaviah) (Скален манастир „Голямата канара“)
    • Gradishte Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Градище“)
  • Tapanite Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Тъпаните“), near Blaskovo village
  • Rojak rock monasteries: Dzheneviz Kanara Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Дженевиз канара“) or Golyamata Kanara Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Голямата канара“), near Rojak village
• Aladzha Monastery near Varna

Others

• St. Stefan Rock Monastery (Скален манастир „Св. Стефан“), Nikopol
• Rock hermitages near the Krushuna Falls south of Krushuna village
• St. Nicholas Rock Monastery (Gligora) (Скален манастир „Свети Никола“ (Глигора)), near Karlukovo village
• St. Ivan Pusti Monastery (Манастир „Свети Иван Пусти”), near Bistrets, Vratsa Province
• Albotin Monastery, northwestern Bulgaria

See also

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

References

• "Mysteries of caves in the Chernihiv area", and article in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, (the Mirror Weekly), January, 2004, available online in Russian and in Ukrainian