Transfiguration Monastery of Mhar
The Transfiguration Monastery of Mhar ( Ukrainian Спасо-Преображенський Мгарський монастир / Spasso-Preobrazhenskyj Mharskyj monastyr ) is a male monastery east of the central Ukrainian city of Lubny . It is located on a hill on the right bank of the Sula River .
history
The monastery was founded in 1619 by the later Kiev Metropolitan Isajja Kopynskyj and the Polish nobleman Rajna Vishnevezka (née Mohiljanka), who was the sister of the Kiev Metropolitan Petro Mohyla . In 1622 a brotherhood was founded in the monastery of Isajja Kopynskyj, which counteracted the catholization of the left-bank Ukraine.
From 1682 to 1754 the stone Transfiguration Church was built on the site of an older church at the instigation of the hetmans Ivan Samoylowytsch and Ivan Masepa by the architect Johann-Baptist Sauber (Ivan Baptist) . In addition, there are four other architectural monuments from the 18th – 20th centuries. Century on the site of the monastery.
In 1919 the monastery was closed by the Bolsheviks and most of the monks were killed. The monastery then served as a children's camp, from 1937 as a penal camp and from 1946 as an army base before it was handed over to the pioneer organization in 1985. Since 1993 it has been fulfilling its old function as a monastery again.
The monastery is the burial place of Jossyf Tukalskyj-Neljubowytsch (? –1675).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 47 ″ N , 33 ° 3 ′ 18 ″ E