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Lubny Lubny ( uk, Лубни́, ), is a city in Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Lubny Raion (district), the city itself is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does no ...

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) The Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( uk, Українська православна церква, Ukrainska pravoslavna tserkva; russian: Украинская православная церковь, Ukrainskaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', UOC), common ...

, affiliation = , height = , architectural = , structural_system = , size = , floor_count = , floor_area = , elevator_count = , grounds_area = , architect = , architecture_firm = , developer = , engineer = , known_for = , website = , embed = , references = , footnotes = , embedded = __NOTOC__ The Mhar Monastery (russian: Мгарский монастырь, uk, Мгарський монастир, ; full name Saviour-Transfiguration Mhar Monastery) is a male monastery of the

on the bank of the

Sula River The Sula ( uk, Сула́; russian: Су́ла) is a left tributary of the Dnieper with a total length of 363 km and a drainage basin of 19,600 km². The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir, with which it for ...

near

(

). It was founded in 1619 by

Isaia Kopynsky Isaiah Kopinsky (b ? in Galicia region – 5 October 1640) was a Ruthenian Orthodox metropolitan (official title – Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and All-Rus'). Orthodox church figure and Kyivan metropolitan. He studied at the Lviv Dormition Br ...

(who later became the Metropolitan of Kiev of the reinstated Ruthenian Orthodox Church) on the money of Princess

Regina Wiśniowiecka Regina Wisniowiecka (also known as Mohilianka or Mohylianka; with her first name rendered as Raina or Irina) was a Polish noble lady originally from Moldavia. She was a wife of Michał Wiśniowiecki and patron of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in ...

(cousin of Metropolitan

Petro Mohyla Metropolitan Petru Movilă ( ro, Petru Movilă, uk, Петро Симеонович Могила, translit=Petro Symeonovych Mohyla, russian: Пётр Симеонович Могила, translit=Pëtr Simeonovich Mogila, pl, Piotr Mohyła; ...

) as a bratstvo designed to become a bulwark of Orthodoxy in the eastern part of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ...

.Welcome to Ukraine Magazine
/ref> The

Ukrainian Baroque Ukrainian Baroque, or Cossack Baroque or Mazepa Baroque ( uk, Українське бароко або Козацьке бароко), is an architectural style that was widespread in the Ukrainian lands in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was th ...

katholikon A ''katholikon'' or catholicon ( gr, καθολικόν) or ''sobor'' ( Slavonic: съборъ) refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church: * The cathedral of a diocese. * The major church building (temple) of a monastery corre ...

was erected in the 1680s with the help of a generous grant from Hetmans

Ivan Samoylovych Ivan Samoylovych (, , ; died 1690) was the Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1672 to 1687. His term in office was marked by further incorporation of the Cossack Hetmanate into the Tsardom of Russia and by attempts to win Right-bank Ukraine from ...

and

Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (also spelled Mazeppa; uk, Іван Степанович Мазепа, pl, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński; ) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708. ...

. The seven-domed church with six piers was designed by a German architect who had worked on the Trinity Cathedral in

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

. The number of domes was reduced to five after the central cupola had collapsed in 1728.Памятники градостроительства и архитектуры Украинской ССР
/ref> A free-standing Neoclassical bell tower was started in 1785 but was not completed until 60 years later. The monastery grounds contain the graves of several Kievan metropolitans. It was there that

Yurii Khmelnytsky Yurii Khmelnytsky ( uk, Юрій Хмельницький, pl, Jerzy Chmielnicki, russian: Юрий Хмельницкий) (1641 – 1685(?)), younger son of the famous Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and brother of Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, was ...

took the tonsure and St.

Athanasius III of Constantinople Athanasius III Patellarios (born Alexios Patellarios, el, Αλέξιος Πατελλάριος, russian: Алексий Пателла́рий; 1597 – 5 April 1654) was the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1634, 1635 and 1652. Before his patri ...

(an ecumenical patriarch) died and was buried. After 1925 the monastery was occupied by the leaders of the Lubny Schism, then housed a succession of institutions for children, including a

Young Pioneer camp Young Pioneer camp (russian: Пионерский лагерь) was the name for the vacation or summer camp of Young Pioneers. In the 20th century these camps existed in many socialist countries, particularly in the Soviet Union. The You ...

, until the monks were allowed to return there in 1993.Official website
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