Lavras

historic Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv

Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church

A lavra or laura (; Cyrillic: ла́вра) is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. Lavra monasteries operate within the Orthodox and other Eastern Christian traditions; the name is also used by some Catholic communities. The term in Greek initially meant a narrow lane or an alley in a city. In a later Eastern Orthodox context, the term took on the new meaning of a large and important monastery.

Monastery in Georgia

monastery in Palestine

1st monastery of Mount Athos, Greece

monastery

monastery

historic monastery in Kalavryta Municipality, Achaia, Greece

heritage site in Neamț County, Romania

Orthodox Christian monastery in the Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

eastern Orthodox monasteries in Ukraine

laura in the present-day West Bank founded by Saint Euthymius the Great in 420