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Encyclopedia > Cave monastery

A cave monastery is basically a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ... Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) The outside world viewed from a cave A cave is a natural underground void large enough for an adult human to enter. ...


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Kyivan Cave Monastery (1075 words)
Monastery School and introduced a ‘western’ curriculum; in 1632 it was merged with the
monastery's cultural influence was later severely undercut by the Russian government's 1720 prohibition on the printing of new books and the imposition of synodal censorship on all publications.
Monastery, which once housed the legendary miracle-working icon of the Dormition; the mines exploded on 3 November 1941 after the Germans had occupied Kyiv.
Monastery of the Kiev Caves - OrthodoxWiki (1604 words)
Theodosius decided to use the statute of the Studion Monastery in Constantinople as the model for the Caves monastery's rules and sent one of his monks to Constantinople to obtain a copy.
The Kievan Cave Monastery Press, the first printing press in Kiev, was established at the monastery in 1615 by Archimandrite Yelisei Pletenentsky.
The heart of the monastery remained the two underground labyrinths of tunnels, cells, and catacombs, from which the name of the monastery is derived and in which monks lived and were buried.
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