List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries

This is a list of Eastern Orthodox monasteries that are individually notable.

In Europe

Albania

• Ardenica Monastery
• St. George's Monastery, Sarandë

Bulgaria

• Aladzha Monastery
• Albotin Monastery
• Arapovo Monastery
• Bachkovo Monastery
• Basarabi Cave Complex
• Belashtitsa Monastery
• Chiprovtsi Monastery
• Dragalevtsi Monastery
• Dryanovo Monastery
• Etropole Monastery
• Glozhene Monastery
• Klisurski Monastery
• Kremikovtsi Monastery
• Lopushna Monastery
• Monastery of Saint Athanasius
• Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity
• Peshtera Monastery
• Rafail's Cross
• Razboishte Monastery
• Rila Monastery
• Rozhen Monastery
• Ruen Monastery
• Seven Altars Monastery
• Sokolski Monastery
• Transfiguration Monastery
• Troyan Monastery
• Zemen Monastery

United Kingdom

• Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Tolleshunt Knights, Essex
• Orthodox Monastery Of All Celtic Saints, Isle of Mull

Finland

• Lintula Holy Trinity Convent
• New Valamo

France

• Château de Saint-Hubert (Chavenon)

Georgia

• Alaverdi Monastery
• Betania Monastery
• Bodbe Monastery
• Chulevi Monastery
• David Gareja monastery complex
• Gelati Monastery
• Gudarekhi
• Ikalto
• Jvari (monastery)
• Katskhi Monastery
• Katskhi pillar
• Kintsvisi Monastery
• Kvatakhevi
• Martvili Monastery
• Monastery of the Cross
• Parekhi
• Pitareti Monastery
• Sapara Monastery
• Shavnabada Monastery
• Shio-Mgvime monastery
• Skhalta Cathedral
• Tbeti Monastery
• Timotesubani
• Tserakvi
• Ubisi
• Urbnisi
• Vanis Kvabebi
• Vardzia
• Zarzma monastery
• Zedazeni Monastery

Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch

• Cherubim – Saidnaya Patriarchal Monastery, Syria
• Dormition of the Theotokos Monastery, also known as Hamatoura Monastery, Kousba
• Holy Archangel Michael Monastery, Baskinta
• Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Kafr Ram, Homs
• Holy Trinity Family Monasteries, Douma
• Monastery of Saint Elijah, Btina
• Saint Elias Monastery (Shwayya, Lebanon)
• Balamand Monastery, Lebanon
• Our Lady of Saidnaya Monastery, Syria
• Saint Elian Monastery, Homs
• Saint George – Saidnaya Patriarchal Monastery
• Saint George's Monastery, Homs
• Saint George Monastery, Mhardeh, Hama
• Saint John the Baptist Monastery, Aleppo
• Convent of Saint Thecla (Maaloula)
• Monastery of Saint Mema, Deir Mimas
• Resurrection Orthodox Convent, France
• Vision of Saint Paul the Apostle Patriarchal Monastery, Tal Kokab
• Our Lady of Achrafieh, Beirut
• Our Lady of Aleppo, Syria
• Our Lady of Bdebba, Koura, Lebanon
• Our Lady of Bkeftine, Tripoli
• Our Lady of Blemmana, Syria
• Our Lady of Keftoun, Lebanon
• Our Lady of El Natour, Anfeh
• Our Lady of Nourieh, Lebanon
• Saint Catherine Monastery, Achrafieh
• Saint Dimitrios Monastery, Kousba
• Saint George Monastery, Deir el-Harf
• Saint George Monastery, Amyoun
• Saint Jacob Monastery, Deddeh
• Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Monastery, Anfeh
• Saint Simon Monastery, Chekka

Cyprus

• Apostolos Andreas Monastery
• Chrysoroyiatissa Monastery
• Kykkos Monastery
• Machairas Monastery
• Notre Dame de Tyre
• Panagia Apsinthiotissa
• Panagia tou Sinti Monastery
• Panagidia Galaktotrofousa monastery
• Stavrovouni Monastery
• Trooditissa Monastery

Greece

• Agia Triada Monastery
• Arkadi Monastery
• Chrysoskalitissa Monastery
• Daphni Monastery
• Gouverneto Monastery
• Kaisariani Monastery
• Monastery of Komnenion
• Monastery of Saint George, Skyros
• Moni Toplou
• Nea Moni of Chios
• Preveli
• Saint Ignatios Monastery
• Monastery of Saint John the Theologian

Meteora

• Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora

Epirus

• Holy Theotokos' Monastery of Molyvdoskepastos

Mount Athos

• Agiou Panteleimonos monastery known as Rossikon, houses monks from Russia
• Agiou Pavlou monastery
  • New Skete (Mount Athos)
• Dionysiou monastery
• Dochiariou monastery
• Esphigmenou Monastery
• Great Lavra (Athos)
• Hilandar
• Iviron monastery
• Karakalou monastery
• Konstamonitou monastery
• Koutloumousiou Monastery
• Osiou Gregoriou monastery
• Pantokratoros monastery
• Philotheou monastery
• Simonopetra monastery
• Stavronikita monastery
• Vatopedi monastery
• Xenophontos monastery
• Xeropotamou Monastery
• Zograf Monastery

Italy

• San Giovanni Theristis

North Macedonia

• Church of St. George, Kurbinovo
• Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane
• Church of St. Nicetas, Banjane
• Karpino Monastery
• Kičevo Monastery
• Lesnovo monastery
• Lešok Monastery
• Marko's Monastery
• Matejić Monastery
• Monastery of Saint Naum
• Osogovo Monastery
• Psača Monastery
• Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery
• Treskavec Monastery
• Zrze Monastery

Poland

• Supraśl Orthodox Monastery

Romania

Main article: List of Romanian Orthodox monasteries

• Sveti Đurađ monastery
• Bazjaš monastery

Russia

See also List of Russian Orthodox monasteries.

Moscow

• Andronikov Monastery
• Ascension Convent
• Chrysostom Monastery
• Chudov Monastery
• Conception Convent
• Danilov Monastery
• Donskoy Monastery
• Epiphany Monastery
• Intercession Monastery (Moscow)
• Ivanovsky Convent
• Krutitsy
• Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
• Nativity Convent (Moscow)
• Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
• Novodevichy Convent
• Novospassky Monastery
• Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
• Simonov Monastery
• Sretensky Monastery (Moscow)
• Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
• Zaikonospassky monastery

Elsewhere

• Alexander Nevsky Lavra, St Petersburg
• Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, Leningrad Oblast
• Andronikov Monastery
• Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti)
• Antonievo-Siysky Monastery
• Arkazhsky Monastery
• Ascension Convent
• Belogorsky Convent
• Borisoglebsky, Yaroslavl Oblast
• Chernigovsky Skit
• Christ the Saviour Monastery
• Chrysostom Monastery
• Chudov Monastery
• Coastal Monastery of St. Sergius
• Conception Convent
• Danilov Monastery
• Donskoy Monastery
• Epiphany Monastery
• Ferapontov Monastery
• Ganina Yama
• Goritsky Monastery (Goritsy)
• Goritsky Monastery (Pereslavl-Zalessky)
• Gorne-Uspensky Convent
• Ioannovsky Convent
• Ipatiev Monastery
• Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
• Kamenny Monastery
• Khutyn Monastery
• Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
• Kiy Island
• Konevsky Monastery
• Kozheozersky Monastery
• Krutitsy
• Krypetsky Monastery
• Makaryev Monastery
• Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
• Mirozhsky Monastery
• New Jerusalem Monastery
• Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
• Novodevichy Convent
• Novospassky Monastery
• Optina Monastery
• Pavlo-Obnorsky Monastery
• Pechenga Monastery
• Pskov-Caves Monastery
• Pühtitsa Convent
• Nativity Convent (Moscow)
• Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
• Serafimo-Diveyevsky Monastery
• Shamordino Convent
• Simonov Monastery
• Smolny Convent
• Solovetsky Monastery
• Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery
• Sretensky Monastery (Moscow)
• Stolobny Island
• Svensky Monastery
• Theophany Convent, Kostroma
• Tikhvin Assumption Monastery
• Transfiguration Monastery, Staraya Russa
• Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
• Troitse-Gledensky Monastery
• Ugresha Monastery
• Valaam Monastery
• Valday Iversky Monastery
• Vyazhishchsky Monastery
• Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
• Vysotsky Monastery
• Yelizarov Convent
• Zaikonospassky monastery

Serbian Orthodox

Main article: List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries

Ukraine

• Bakota, Ukraine
• Brotherhood Monastery
• Florivsky Convent
• Kiev Pechersk Lavra
• Manyava Skete
• Mezhyhirya Monastery
• Mhar Monastery
• Pochayiv Lavra
• St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery
• Sviatohirsk Lavra
• Trakhtemyrov Monastery
• Trinity Monastery (Chernihiv)
• Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas
• Vydubychi Monastery
• Zymne Monastery

In the Americas

Argentina

• Episcopal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Buenos Aires and South America

Canada

• All Saints Monastery
• Holy Transfiguration Serbian Orthodox Monastery, in Milton, Ontario
• Saint Petka Serbian Orthodox Church
• St Kosmas Aitolos Greek Orthodox Monastery

United States

Main article: List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in the United States

• St. Archangel Michael Skete
• Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery
• Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery (Castro Valley, California)
• Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville), Jordanville, New York, NRHP-listed
• St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery
• New Gračanica Monastery
• New Skete (New York)
  • Monks of New Skete
  • Nuns of New Skete
• St. Nilus Island Skete
• St. Pachomious Monastery
• Monastery of St. Paisius, Safford, Arizona
• Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and Seminary, Illinois
• Solus Christi Brothers, Wisconsin, belonging to the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America
• Episcopal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America, located at Saint Steven's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Alhambra, California
• St. Xenia Serbian Orthodox Skete

In Asia

Holy Land

• Abraham's Oak Holy Trinity Monastery, Hebron, Palestine
• Mar Elias Monastery
• Mar Saba
• Monastery of the Temptation
• Our Lady of Nourieh
• Saint Catherine's Monastery

Korea

• Monastery of St. Andreas, Yanggu County, Gangwon
• Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, Gapyeong County

Turkey

• Bolaman Castle
• Cape Jason
• Kuştul Monastery
• Monastery of the Panagia Hodegetria
• Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery
• Monastery of Stoudios, or the Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner at Stoudios (ruins)
• Sümela Monastery
• Vazelon Monastery
• Zelve Monastery (ruins, part of museum) near Ürgüp and Avanos

In Oceania

Australia

• Holy Monastery of St John of the Mountain
• Holy Monastery of St George, Yellow Rock
• Holy Cross Monastery

New Zealand

• Monastery of The Holy Archangels, Levin

See also

• Lavra, a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits
• Metochion, an ecclesiastical embassy church within the Eastern Orthodox tradition
• Stauropegion, a monastery or parish not under the jurisdiction of the local bishop, but directly under the primate or Holy Synod of a particular Church. Also called stauropegic, stavropegion