Founded in 15th century
Ukraine, Univ, Lviv Region
One of the most ancient monastery complexes of Ukraine, the central monastery of the Halych diocese over the 14th-18th centuries, the centre of the life of the Studite order monks. The monastery was most probably erected in the 15th century. It is surrounded by high walls with fire slits and defensive towers. In the second half of the 17th – the first half of the 18th c. Warłaam and Atanasiy Sheptytsky were the archimandrites of the monastery. They performed the restoration and reconstruction of the church and the monastery, restored the printing house where over 600 titles of printed output items came out. In the period of Atanasiy Sheptytsky the Holy Virgin icon was acknowledged to be wonder-working. Now the Lavra consists of the following buildings: the Dormition of the Holy Virgin Cathedral (mid. 16th c.) made of stone, the monastery building (17th-19th c.); the house of the metropolitan (the 20ies of the 19th c.), and the wooden Blessed Leontiy and Klymentiy Cathedral.