Eastern Ukraine
Donetsk Oblast
Kramatorsk Raion

Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery

The Holy Mountains Lavra of the Holy Dormition is a major Orthodox Christian monastery on the steep right bank of the River. The name comes from the surrounding Holy Mountains; the Holy Dormition is another term for the death of the Virgin Mary.
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  • Type: Monastery
  • Description: monastery
  • Also known as: “Sviato-Uspenska Sviatohirska Lavra”, “Sviatohirsk Holy-Uspenska Monastery”, and “Sviatohirsk Lavra”
  • Address: Зарічна вулиця 1

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Svyatogorsk and Bohorodychne.

Town
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Sviatohirsk, formerly Slovianohirsk, is a city in the northern part of in . It stands on the banks of the , 30 kilometers from the city of .

Village
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is a village in in of south-eastern , at about 120 kilometres north-northwest from the centre of city, on the right bank of the . is situated 5 km west of Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery.

Village
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is a rural settlement in , , eastern . is situated 5 km north of Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery.

Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery

Latitude
49.02801° or 49° 1′ 41″ north
Longitude
37.56781° or 37° 34′ 4″ east
Operator
Донецька Єпархія
Open location code
8GXV2HH9+64
Open­Street­Map ID
way 412077924
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Wiki­data ID
Q1472360
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دير الجبل المقدس”
  • Arabic: “دير رقاد السيدة”
  • Basque: “Sviatohirskeko Lavra”
  • Belarusian: “Святагорская лаўра”
  • Bulgarian: “Светогорска лавра”
  • Catalan: “Monestir de Sviatohirsk”
  • Chinese: “圣山拉伏拉”
  • Chinese: “斯維亞托戈爾斯克修道院”
  • Chinese: “斯维亚托戈尔斯克修道院”
  • Croatian: “Svjatogorska lavra”
  • Czech: “Svatohorská lávra”
  • Danish: “Svjatohirska Kloster”
  • Finnish: “Pyhän vuoren luostari”
  • Finnish: “Svjatohirskin lavra”
  • Finnish: “Svjatohirskin luostari”
  • French: “La laure de la Dormition de la Mère de Dieu de Sviatohirsk”
  • French: “Laure de Sviatohirsk”
  • German: “Kloster Swjatohirsk”
  • Greek: “Λαύρα του Σβιατογίρσκ”
  • Indonesian: “Sviatohirsk Lavra”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Svjatohirs’k”
  • Japanese: “生神女就寝スヴャトヒルシク大修道院”
  • Lithuanian: “Sviatohirsko laura”
  • Luxembourgish: “Klouschter Swjatohirsk”
  • Macedonian: “Светогорска Успенска Лавра”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯚꯤꯌꯥꯇꯣꯍꯤꯔꯁ꯭ꯛ ꯂꯥꯚ꯭ꯔꯥ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Svjatohirska kloster”
  • Persian: “صومعه کوه مقدس”
  • Polish: “Ławra Świętogórska, Ławra Zaśnięcia Bogurodzicy”
  • Polish: “Ławra Świętogórska”
  • Portuguese: “Monastério de Sviatogirsk”
  • Romanian: “Lavra din Sveatohirsk”
  • Russian: “Святогорская лавра”
  • Russian: “Святогорская Свято-Успенская лавра”
  • Russian: “Святогорская Успенская лавра”
  • Serbian: “Svjatogorska Uspenska lavra”
  • Serbian: “Свјатогорска Успенска лавра”
  • Serbian: “生神女就寝スヴャトヒルシク大修道院”
  • Slovenian: “Svetogorska lavra”
  • Slovenian: “Svjatogirska lavra”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Sviatogirsk”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Sviatohirsk”
  • Swedish: “Svjatohirsk kloster”
  • Ukrainian: “Свято-Успенська Святогірська лавра”
  • Ukrainian: “Свято-Успенська Святогірська Лавра”
  • Ukrainian: “Святогірська лавра”
  • Western Frisian: “Svjatohirsk Lavra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery”. Photo: Ryzhkov Sergey, CC BY-SA 3.0.