Lavra Monastery with Treasure House and Microminiatures Museum

• Kyiv
• Private tour
• Religion tour
• Theme
• Tour
• Walking

Great tour with visit tree Museums located on the upper territory of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Monastery what function as museum. First visit the oldest Monastery – the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra the most honor in the history of the Russian and Ukrainian orthodox churches, Assumption Cathedral, Trinity church with its baroque XVIII-th century interior, Refectory of the Church, Great Lavra Bell Tower 97 m. (316 feet), Metropolitan Home, then visit to the Caves where monks lived in XI-th century, and a few more sites.

The Galleries of the Caves nowadays contain holy relics of saint resting in their cypress-wood shrines under glass cover. The Caves have churches with bronze icon stands XI-th century Greek marble columns and cast-icon floor tiles. The Caves stretch for some 700 feet New and 900 feet Far caves.

Some buildings of the Lavra are museums today. Former bakery houses – Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine a collection of Scythian gold jewelry, Greek craftsmanship IV-th century, B.C., Hans’s and Goth’s jewelry, silver sacker objects such as icon and gospel mounts, tabernacles, crosses, oil lamps, etc.. One room has synagogues items. One of them is a 3-tier torah’s crown from the city of Zhitomir.

Mykola Syadristy Microminiatures Museum is equipped with microscopes to help visitors see well its super-small exhibits like a chessboard with chessmen on the top of the pin and a dead flea with golden shoes on its feet. Microminiatures have been made by Ukrainian crafts-man Nicholas Syadristy since early 1960-ies.

In extra you can visit the Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine what located on the territory of Lavra.

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