Pokrovsky Nunnery

Pokrovsky Nunnery
Покровський жіночий монастир
Pokrovsky Nunnery is located in Ukraine Kyiv
Pokrovsky Nunnery
Location within Ukraine Kyiv
Pokrovsky Nunnery is located in Ukraine
Pokrovsky Nunnery
Pokrovsky Nunnery (Ukraine)
Monastery information
DenominationUkrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Established1889
DioceseKyiv
Controlled churchesCathedral of Saint Nicholas
Site
LocationKyiv
CountryUkraine
Coordinates50°27′32″N 30°29′37″E / 50.4590°N 30.4937°E / 50.4590; 30.4937

The Pokrovsky Nunnery (Ukrainian: Покровський жіночий монастир, romanizedPokrovskyi zhinochyi monastyr) in Kyiv, Ukraine, known in full as the Nunnery of the Protection of the Mother of God, is a religious complex, including the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, under the control of the Kyiv Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. "Pokrovsky" can be translated as Intercession.

The nunnery was founded in 1889 and developed in the last decade of the 19th century by the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia (1838–1900), the estranged wife and later widow of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich.