Mezhyhirya Monastery

This article is about the Ukrainian monastery demolished in the 1930s. For a former official residence of Ukraine, see Mezhyhirya Residence.
Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery
The Mezhyhirya Monastery, located on the right bank of the Dnieper. Fyodor Solntsev, 1843.
Monastery information
Other namesMezhyhiria Monastery
DenominationOrthodox
Establishedunknown[1]
Disestablished1935
Controlled churchesGate Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Transfiguration Cathedral
People
Founder(s)unknown[1]
Site
LocationNovi Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast
Coordinates50°37′7″N 30°27′55″E / 50.61861°N 30.46528°E / 50.61861; 30.46528
Visible remainsWater well
Public accessRestricted
Map

The Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery[nb 1] (Ukrainian: Межигірський Спасо-Преображенський монастир, romanized: Mezhyhirskyi Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Monastyr) was an Eastern Orthodox female monastery that was located in the neighborhood of Mezhyhiria outside of the Vyshhorod city limits.

The monastery was located just 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the north of Vyshhorod. Today, the territory is part of the Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The location is situated in the Mezhyhirya ravine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River in close proximity to the Kyiv Reservoir.

It is unknown when the monastery was founded, although several different legends and stories about its founding exist.[1] Throughout its existence, it was destroyed, and then restored numerous times, yet it was not spared destruction by Soviet authorities in 1935. At the time of its height, the Mezhyhirya Monastery was considered a spiritual center of Rus royal Rurikid house and later Cossacks.[2][3] Currently, the area of the former monastery is located on a fenced-in woodland territory next to Novi Petrivtsi village and is now a museum.

As an important monastery of the Zaporozhian Host, the Mezhyhirya Monastery left a rich legacy behind it. The monastery was mentioned in one of Taras Shevchenko's poems, "Chernets," written in 1847,[4] and was the subject of a drawing by him. Nikolai Gogol's novel, "Taras Bulba," published in 1835, also mentions the monastery.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference oko was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Redko, Dmytro (August 2, 2007). "American dream. In Ukrainian". Lvivska Hazeta (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  3. ^ "Ivan Mazepa: Hetman, which let the world honour Ukraine". Prosvita (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
  4. ^ Shevchenko, Taras (1847). "Chernets". Poetyka (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on February 26, 2001. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
  5. ^ "Successor of the Hetmans". Krymska Svitlytsia (in Ukrainian). June 28, 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2007-12-27.


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