List of cave monasteries

Vardzia Cave Monastery (Georgia)

A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Antony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave.

• Albania
  • Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë, Albania.
  • 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
  • Monasteries of Provadia
  • Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen
  • Cave monasteries of Tervel
• Ethiopia
  • Monolithic church
• Iraq
  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh
  • Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh
• France
  • Abbey of Saint-Roman, Beaucaire, Gard^[1]
• Georgia
  • David Gareja monastery complex
  • Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
  • Vardzia cave city and monastery
• Hungary
  • Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest
• North Macedonia
  • , Struga
• Romania
  • Basarabi Cave Complex
• Russia
  • Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
  • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
  • Divnogorye and , 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
  • , 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
  • Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery
  •  [uk], Kyiv

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