History.
On its early period of reliable sources have been preserved. Only legends.
It is located next to a small town in Ternopil Pochaiv .
Local monks believe that the monastery came at a time when these places come Caves elders , fleeing the Tatar- Mongol.
They found shelter on a rocky , wooded hill. And then it was the Blessed Virgin, leaving a trail on the rock with his right foot. From there, immediately began to exude a healing water . Rumors about collecting the faithful to prayer . Those who remain here and become a monk built Dormition Skete. Initially, novices living in caves in the mountain.The first structure was a wooden church of the Assumption, built on the terrace of the northern slope. As Laura gets its name , is not known whether from the tributary of the Dnieper , or from changes in the Ukrainian spoken word broach .
It is only with the 50s of the 15th century can be more clearly trace the history of the monastery .
A local landowner Anna Goyskaya donates huge sums to build a church . Soon it was over. Landowner also gives the monastery in 1597 large land holdings , which confirms the status of the monastery, the estate and important treasure - a miraculous image of Our Lady.Building stone of the monastery and the appearance of the miraculous icon has become a new stage in the life of the monastery, which later made him famous throughout the world.
Orthodox monks were strong in their faith and able to withstand the expansion of papal and not give in to turn monastery union . They also managed to recover stolen from them before the miraculous icon .His sermons , spiritual purity , they strengthen the faith of the Orthodox in serious hours of tests.
The Orthodox , who are persecuted Catholics and Uniates , find their protection.
These persecutions only strengthened Pochaev monastery . Coincidence of time it became the largest center of Orthodoxy in Western Ukraine.
The whole responsibility for the fate of the only places in these Orthodox monastery took the abbot Venerable Job Pochaev .
With him at the monastery began a period of prosperity. It was then opened and the School of Printing . In 1649, at the very top of the mountain church was erected in honor of St. . Trinity with the foot of the Virgin in the middle of the temple.Also constructed defensive wall around the monastery , the other church, residence for monks, farm buildings . Rev. Job lived 100 years . Then he and the Mother of God is the protector of the monastery.
But after a while begins to lose his abode and might fall under the influence of the Polish crown .It was during this period, it settles the residence of the Greek Catholic Basilian monastic order .
New in 1831 , already ruled by Russia, the Monastery was returned to Orthodoxy.Construction resumed , and as a result it has finally formed an architectural complex of the monastery , combining ancient traditions , Ukrainian, and classical architecture.
In 1833, the decision of the Holy Synod Pochaev monastery receives the status of Lavra.
It is the largest educational center , staffed by a printing house, schools, workshops on gold, making iconography , bindery.
since 1887 is published weekly Pochaev sheet .
will be the development of choral art. It was from that time considered a classic melody Pochaev church hymns .
The monks continue to work productively on their own land , which allows not only contain the whole monastery , and soup kitchens , hospitals and orphanages.
In the monastery are always pilgrims not only to Ukraine but also from other countries.
visited this monastery and the last Russian emperor Nicholas II.
The Soviet authorities closed the monastery managed to escape . The Bolsheviks , fearing unrest and volynyan Galicia , left him alone . The monks tried hard to keep the monastery, so as not to give occasion to close its allegedly for restoration.
In these days when the state's attitude toward the church has changed , the monastery continues to work productively for the benefit of the spiritual development of society. In 1992, the monastery has confirmed its commitment to the Moscow Patriarchate. Since 1997, Laura receives a status stavropegic.
Architecture.
mountain on which the Monastery is surrounded on three sides by the town of New Pochaiv . The architectural complex of the monastery, apart from religious buildings are stone and wooden fortifications .
Assumption Cathedral, which dominates the shrine was built in 1771 - 1783 .by the architect Gottfried Hoffmann's style of late baroque , instead of an ancient wooden church of the Assumption .
Under Assumption Cathedral is the most holy temple .
Job. The church is often called the Cave , linking it to the place where the relics of a saint.
At the bottom of the hill is the church of Saint Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves . The atmosphere of this church is permeated privacy.
In the XIX century , simultaneously with the reconstruction, created such masterpieces as the Holy Gate , Holy Trinity Cathedral (1910 - 1913 . ).
The monastery ensemble also includes a fraternal body and bishop's residence.
Shrines .
The foot of the Virgin ( a footprint on a dense calcareous tuff ). The water in it never overflows and it does not diminish , though pilgrims are constantly taking away the water for curing various ailments. This Pochaev miracle for more than 650 years.
Pochaev icon of the Mother of God .
This is the miraculous icon .The first miracle happened when the sight before her brother born blind Goyskoy Anna , who was at that time the owner of the icon. Her successor tried to eliminate the monastery and its lands to take themselves . In 1623 he sacked the monastery and stole the icon. Then the icon could return back to the monastery.
Wonders of the icon did not stop when the monastery owned Uniates .
is particularly sacred healing the blind and visually impaired people.
followed by the Orthodox patriarch, the miraculous icon has officially recognized the Roman Catholic Church.
The relics of St. Job of Pochaev.
They are stored in the cave temples and people are open daily for worship.
The relics of St. Amphilochius Pochaev.
He was a clairvoyant and healer.
interior .
The best decoration Laura - canopy over the shrine of St. Job in the cave church , made of white Carrara marble.In its upper part is placed the relief of the Holy Spirit as a dove , surrounded by light. Canopy in a natural grotto.
To get to the cave church can only beating the Assumption Cathedral. The walls are painted with frescoes of the cathedral local saints.
Laurel rich wall paintings , sculptures and ornaments.The interior of the temple there are icons even in 1646 . The iconostasis of the church donated Alexander II. At this iconostasis is known Pochaev icon.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral are a colorful mosaic paintings made by Nicholas Roerich .At the entrance to the temple for the Holy Gate, shows Our Lady , as she first appeared and left a trail of his right foot on a rock.
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