Klobuk

For other uses, see Klobuk (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with kłobuk, the benevolent equivalent of a poroniec.
St. Theophan the Recluse wearing a klobuk.
A Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan wearing a white klobuk
Klobuk of Patriarch Philaret of Moscow (1619-33), Kremlin museum

A klobuk is an item of monastic clothing worn by monks and, in the Russian tradition, also by nuns, in the Byzantine Rite, composed of a kamilavka (stiffened round black headcovering) with an epanokamelavkion, a veil which completely covers the kamilavka and hangs down over the shoulders and back.