List of cave monasteries
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
- France
- 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
- 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, Kyiv
References
- Abbey of Saint-Roman Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- "Mysteries of caves in the Chernihiv area", and article in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, (the Mirror Weekly), January, 2004, available online in Russian and in Ukrainian
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