List of cave monasteries

List of cave monasteries
Vardzia Cave Monastery (Georgia).

A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. St. Anthony the Great known as the founder of monasticism lived in a cave.

List of cave monasteries

In the Kitaev Poustinia, Kiev

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