Cave monastery

Cave monastery

A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities.

List of cave monasteries

*Armenia
**Geghard cave monastery/fortress
*Bulgaria
**Aladzha Monastery
**Albotin Monastery
**Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
** Basarbovo Monastery
**Monasteries of Provadia
*France
**Abbey of Saint-Roman ("Abbaye de Saint-Roman"), Beaucaire, Gard [http://www.abbaye-saint-roman.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2]
*Georgia
**David Gareja monastery complex
**Vardzia cave city and monastery,
**Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
*Hungary
**Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest.
*Russia
**Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
**Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
**Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast
*Thailand
**Tiger Cave Monastery (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
**Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
*Turkey
**Cappadocia cave monasteries
*Ukraine
**Assumption Cave Monastery and St. Clement Monastery, Inkerman, Crimea
**Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery
**Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne near Volodymyr-Volynskyi
** Bakota Cave Monstary in Bakota near Kamianets-Podilskyi

ee also

* Monolithic architecture
* Monolithic church
* Indian rock-cut architecture

References

*"Mysteries of caves in the Chernigov area", and article in Zerkalo Nedeli, ("the Mirror Weekly"), January, 2004, available online [http://www.zerkalo-nedeli.com/nn/show/476/45172/ in Russian] and [http://www.zn.kiev.ua/ie/show/476/45172/ in Ukrainian] .


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