WA cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Antony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave.Albania Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë, Albania. St. Mary's Church, cave church in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake Armenia Geghard cave monastery/fortress Bulgaria Aladzha Monastery Albotin Monastery Basarbovo Monastery Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo Cave monasteries of Krepcha Monasteries of Provadia Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen Cave monasteries of Tervel Ethiopia Monolithic church Iraq Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh France Abbey of Saint-Roman, Beaucaire, Gard Georgia David Gareja monastery complex Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau Vardzia cave city and monastery Hungary Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest North Macedonia Kališta Monastery, Struga Romania Basarabi Cave Complex Corbii de Piatră Nămăiești Russia Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast Serbia Blagoveštenje Crna Reka Gornjak Kađenica Churches of Kovilje Monastery Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, also known as the Cave Church, 14th-century church in Lukovo Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Rsovci, where was painted a unique fresco of bald Jesus Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški Savina Thailand Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province Tiger Cave Temple, Krabi Turkey Cappadocia cave monasteries Cave monastery of İnceğiz Church of Saint Peter Ukraine In the Kitaev Poustinia, Kiev Assumption Cave Monastery and Inkerman Cave Monastery in the Crimea Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne, near Volodymyr-Volynskyi Bakota Cave Monastery in Bakota, near Kamianets-Podilskyi Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Eletsky Monastery
WThe Abbey of Saint-Roman, is a cave monastery located in the communes of Beaucaire and Comps, in the Gard département of France.
WAladzha Monastery is a medieval Orthodox Christian cave monastery complex in northeastern Bulgaria, 17 km north of central Varna and 3 km west of Golden Sands beach resort, in a protected forest area adjacent to the Golden Sands Nature Park.
WAlbotin Monastery is a presently inactive Bulgarian medieval cave monastery on the territory of Kula bishopric of Vidin Diocese of Bulgarian Orthodox Church, in the locality Albotin (Albutin) along river Topolovets between villages Gradets and Rabrovo, nearby village Deleyna.
WThe Assumption Monastery of the Caves is located in Crimea, near Bakhchysarai. It is a cave monastery carved out of a cliff.
WBasarbovo Monastery – the Monastery of Saint Dimitar Basarbowski – is a Bulgarian-orthodox cave monastery near the city of Ruse in north-eastern Bulgaria. It has the same name as the nearby village of Basarbovo and lies about 35 metres above the river Rusenski Lom, south of the Danube.
WThe Cave monastery of İnceğiz is a cave monastery formed by carving a rocky cliff located in İnceğiz village of Çatalca district in Istanbul Province, northwestern Turkey.
WDavid Gareja is a rock-hewn Georgian Orthodox monastery complex located in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia, on the half-desert slopes of Mount Gareja on the edge of Iori Plateau, some 60–70 km southeast of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. The complex includes hundreds of cells, churches, chapels, refectories and living quarters hollowed out of the rock face.
WGeghard is a medieval monastery in the Kotayk province of Armenia, being partially carved out of the adjacent mountain, surrounded by cliffs. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with enhanced protection status.
WThe Gornjak Monastery, formerly known as Ždrelo (Ждрело), is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the vicinity of today's city of Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia.
WGümüşler Monastery is a Byzantine-era cave monastery in the town of Gümüşler, Niğde Province, Turkey.
WHermitage and Monastery of Saint Peter Koriški is a ruin of the hermitage and monastery located in Koriša, Prizren municipality, Kosovo. The monastery and hermitage are on the same location.
WThe Inkerman Monastery of St. Clement is a cave monastery in a cliff rising near the mouth of the Black River, in the city of Inkerman, administered as part of the sea port of Sevastopol. It was founded in 1850 on the site of a medieval Byzantine monastery where the relics of St. Clement were supposedly kept before their removal to San Clemente by Saints Cyril and Methodius. The early Christians are supposed to have kept the relics in a grotto which could be visited only on the anniversary of his death. William Rubruck described it as a church "built by the hands of angels".
WKyiv Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra, also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kyiv.
WThe Monastery of Saint Maron, also called the Cave of the monks, is an ancient cavern - used as a Maronite monastery - carved out of solid rock in the side of a cliff, located around 200 metres (660 ft) from Ain ez Zarqa, the source of the Orontes river, and south of Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, northern Lebanon. It is named after Saint Maron whose life and works at the location is associated with the establishment of the Maronite Church.
WThe Basarabi-Murfatlar Cave Complex is a medieval Christian monastery located near the town of Murfatlar, Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The complex is a relict from a widespread monastic phenomenon in 10th century Bulgaria.
WThe Monastery of Ostrog is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church situated against an almost vertical background, high up in the large rock of Ostroška Greda, in Montenegro. It is dedicated to Saint Basil of Ostrog, who was buried here. From the monastery, a superb view of the Bjelopavlići plain can be seen. The monastery is located in Danilovgrad Municipality, 50 km from Podgorica and 15 km from Nikšić. Ostrog monastery is the most popular pilgrimage place in Montenegro.
WRabban Hormizd Monastery is an important monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul. It was the official residence of the patriarchs of the Eliya line of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1551 to the 18th century, and after the union with Rome in the early 19th century, it became a prominent monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
WThe Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, 20 km south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 m above the river. The complex is noted for its beautiful and well-preserved medieval frescoes. The churches are inside Rusenski Lom Nature Park.
WVanis Kvabebi is a cave monastery in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia near Aspindza town and the more famous cave city of Vardzia. The complex dates from 8th century and consists of a defensive wall built in 1204 and a maze of tunnels running on several levels in the side of the mountain.
WVardzia is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred meters and in up to nineteen tiers. The Church of the Dormition, dating to the 1180s during the golden age of Tamar and Rustaveli, has an important series of wall paintings. The site was largely abandoned after the Ottoman takeover in the sixteenth century. Now part of a state heritage reserve, the extended area of Vardzia-Khertvisi has been submitted for future inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
WThe Assumption Monastery at the Holy Mountain is a stauropegial Russian Orthodox cave monastery belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is located at the top of the Holy Mountain rising above the Luh River near the village of Zymne. It is five kilometers south of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.