Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is a lavra and the most important Russian monastery, being the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 kilometres to the northeast from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to over 300 monks.Photo: Al grishin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Email: office@lavra.ru
- Type: Monastery
- Denomination: Russian Orthodox
- Description: Russian monastery and the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sergiyev Posad and 40 km.
Sergiyev Posad
Railway station
40 km
Railway stop
Photo: Егор Лазарев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
40 km is a railway stop, which is situated 3½ km north of Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sergiev Posad and Blagoveshchenje.
Sergiev Posad
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sergiev Posad is a city in North Moscow Oblast, famous for its Troitse-Sergiev Lavra monastery, the spiritual home of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is often visited as a part of the Golden Ring around Moscow.
Blagoveshchenje
Village
Photo: Эдуард Егоров, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blagoveshchenje is a village, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.
Глинково
Village
Photo: SPQRjulyandlove, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Глинково is a village, which is situated 4 km southeast of Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius.
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
- Categories: lavra, architectural landmark, World Heritage Site, historic site, religious organization, and religion
- Location: Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
56.31072° or 56° 18′ 39″ northLongitude
38.13018° or 38° 7′ 49″ eastOpen location code
9G8W846J+73OpenStreetMap ID
way 219706573OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=religiousOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=russian_orthodoxWikidata ID
Q211962
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Drie-eenheid-klooster van Sint Sergei”
- Afrikaans: “Drie-eenheid-klooster van Sint Sergius”
- Arabic: “الثالوث المقدس للقديس سيرغي”
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Երրորդություն մայրավանք”
- Armenian: “Տրոիցե-Սերգիյան մայրավանք”
- Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Sergi Üçlük monastırı”
- Basque: “Hirutasunaren eta San Sergioren Lavra”
- Belarusian: “Свята-Траецкая Сергіева Лаўра”
- Belarusian: “Траецка-Сергіева лаўра”
- Belarusian: “Троіца-Сергіева лаўра”
- Bulgarian: “Троице-Сергиева лавра”
- Catalan: “Conjunt arquitectònic del monestir de la Trinitat i Sant Sergi a Sèrguiev Posad”
- Catalan: “Laura de la Santíssima Trinitat i Sant Sergi”
- Catalan: “Monestir de la Santíssima Trinitat i Sant Sergi”
- Catalan: “Monestir de la Trinitat i Sant Sergi”
- Catalan: “Monestir trinitàri de Sant Sergi”
- Chinese: “聖母升天大教堂”
- Chinese: “聖母昇天大教堂”
- Chinese: “謝爾蓋聖三一修道院”
- Chinese: “谢尔盖圣三一修道院”
- Croatian: “Trojce-Sergijeva Lavra”
- Croatian: “Trojice-Sergijeva lavra”
- Croatian: “Utvrda-manastir u Sergijevom Posadu”
- Czech: “Trojicko-sergijevská lávra”
- Danish: “Troitse-Sergijeva lavra”
- Dutch: “Drieeenheidslavra”
- Dutch: “Drieëenheidslavra”
- Dutch: “Lavra van de Heilige Drie-eenheid”
- Dutch: “Triniti Sergius Lavra”
- Dutch: “Troitse-Sergieva Lavra”
- Dutch: “Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الثالوث المقدس للقديس سرجيوس”
- Esperanto: “Triunia monaĥejo de Sergio el Radoneĵo”
- Estonian: “Püha Kolmainu Sergi Suurklooster”
- Estonian: “Troitse-Sergi klooster”
- Estonian: “Troitse-Sergi suurklooster”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergieva lavra”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergievin lavra”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergievin luostari”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergijeva lavra”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergijevan lavra”
- Finnish: “Troitse-Sergijevin luostari”
- French: “Ensemble architectural de la laure de la Trinité-Saint-Serge à Serguiev Posad”
- French: “Laure de la Trinité Saint-Serge”
- French: “Laure de la Trinité-Saint-Serge à Serguiev Possad”
- French: “Laure de la Trinite-Saint-Serge”
- French: “Laure de la Trinité-Saint-Serge”
- French: “Monastère de la Trinité-Saint-Serge”
- Georgian: “წმინდა სერგის სამების ლავრა”
- German: “Dreifaltigkeitskloster von Sergijew Possad”
- German: “Kloster der Dreifaltigkeit und des Heiligen Sergius”
- German: “Kloster der Troiza”
- German: “Troice-Sergiev-Kloster”
- German: “Troize-Sergijew-Kloster”
- Greek: “Λαύρα της Αγίας Τριάδας του Αγίου Σεργίου”
- Greek: “Λαύρα Τρόιτσε-Σεργκίγεβα”
- Greek: “Λαύρα Τρόιτσε-Σέργκιεβα”
- Hebrew: “לאוורת השילוש סרגייב”
- Hebrew: “לאוורת השילוש-סרגייב”
- Hebrew: “לאורת השילוש סרגייב”
- Hebrew: “לאורת השילוש-סרגייב”
- Hindi: “सेंट सर्जियस के ट्रिनिटी लैव्रा”
- Hungarian: “Szentháromság–Szergij-kolostor”
- Italian: “Monastero della Trinità di San Sergio”
- Italian: “Monastero di Troice-Sergieva Lavra”
- Italian: “Troice-Sergieva Lavra”
- Italian: “Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra”
- Japanese: “セルギエフ・パサード至聖三者セルギー大修道院”
- Japanese: “セルギエフ・パサドの三位一体セルギー・ラヴラの建築的遺産群”
- Japanese: “セルギエフ・パサドの至聖三者セルギー・ラヴラの建築的遺産群”
- Japanese: “セルギエフ・ポサドのトロイツェ・セルギー大修道院の建造物群”
- Japanese: “トローイッツェ・セールギエフ修道院”
- Japanese: “トローイッツェ・セールギエフ大修道院”
- Japanese: “トローイッツェ・セルギエフ修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者セルギー修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者セルギー大修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者セルギイ修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者セルギイ大修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者聖セルギー修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者聖セルギー大修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者聖セルギイ修道院”
- Japanese: “至聖三者聖セルギイ大修道院”
- Korean: “성 세르기우스 삼위일체 수도원”
- Ladin: “Cunvënt de la Trinità de San Serghiev”
- Latin: “Laura Sacrosanctae Trinitatis Sanctique Sergii”
- Latvian: “Troicas-Sergija klosteris”
- Lithuanian: “Sergijevo Lavros Trejybė”
- Lithuanian: “Švč. Trejybės ir šv. Sergijaus laura”
- Macedonian: “Троице-Сергиева лавра”
- Maltese: “Lavra tat-Trinità ta‘ San Serġjo”
- Maltese: “Lavra tat-Trinità ta’ San Serġjo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Treenighetsklosteret i Sergijev Posad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Treenighetsklosteret til den hellige Sergius”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Troitse-Sergijeva Lavra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Troitse-Sergijeva Lavra”
- Norwegian: “Troitse-Sergijeva Lavra”
- Persian: “صومعه تثلیث سرگیوس”
- Persian: “صومعه سرگییف پوساد”
- Persian: “صومعهٔ سرگییف پوساد”
- Polish: “Ławra Troicko-Siergiejewska”
- Polish: “Ławra Troicko-Siergijewska”
- Portuguese: “Conjunto Arquitectónico e Monástico da Trindade-São Sérgio em Sergiev Posad”
- Portuguese: “Monastério da Trindade-São Sérgio”
- Portuguese: “Mosteiro da Trindade-São Sérgio”
- Russian: “Свято-Троицкая Сергиева Лавра”
- Russian: “Сергиево-Посадская лавра”
- Russian: “Троице-Сергиев монастырь”
- Russian: “Троице-Сергиева лавра”
- Russian: “Троице-Сергиевский монастырь”
- Russian: “Троицко-Сергиевский монастырь”
- Russian: “ТСЛ”
- Serbian: “Trojice-Sergijeva lavra”
- Serbian: “Св. Сергијевска Лавра”
- Serbian: “Троице-Сергиева лавра”
- Serbian: “Тројице-Сергијева лавра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Trojice-Sergijeva lavra”
- Slovak: “Trojicko-Sergejevská lávra”
- Slovak: “Trojicko-sergijevská lavra”
- Slovenian: “Trojiški samostan sv. Sergija”
- Spanish: “Laura de la Trinidad y San Sergio”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de la Trinidad y de San Sergio”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de la Trinidad y San Sergio”
- Swedish: “Trefaldighetens-Sergius lavra”
- Tatar: “Троица-Сергий лаврасы”
- Turkish: “Aziz Sergius’un Teslis Manastırı”
- Ukrainian: “Свято-Троїцька Сергієва Лавра”
- Ukrainian: “Троїце Сергієва Лавра”
- Ukrainian: “Троїце-Сергієва лавра”
- Ukrainian: “Троїце-Сергієва Лавра”
- Ukrainian: “Троїце-Сергієвий монастир”
- Vietnamese: “Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra”
- Western Frisian: “Trije-ienheid-Sergius Lavra”
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