Urakë in the context of "Cave-church"

A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Anthony the Great, known as the founder of Christian monasticism, lived in a cave.

• Albania
  • Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë
  • St. Mary's Church, cave church in Maligrad, an island in the Prespa lake
• Armenia
  • Geghard cave monastery/fortress
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Zavala monastery
• Bulgaria
  • Aladzha Monastery
  • Albotin Monastery
  • Basarbovo Monastery
  • Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
  • Cave monasteries of Krepcha
  • Monasteries of Provadia
  • Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen
  • Cave monasteries of Tervel
• Egypt
  • St. Simon the Tanner Monastery
• Ethiopia
  • Monolithic church
• France
  • Abbey of Saint-Roman, Beaucaire, Gard
• Georgia
  • David Gareja monastery complex
  • Vanis Kvabebi cave monastery/fortress, Javakheti Plateau
  • Vardzia cave city and monastery
• Greece
  • various cave hermitages at Meteora
  • various cave hermitages at Mount Athos
    • caves at Karoulia
  • Monastery of Saint Mark, Petroussa (bg)
• Hungary
  • Gellért Hill Cave chapels and monastery, Budapest
• Iraq
  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Alqosh
  • Mar Qayuma Monastery, Dooreh
• Israel
  • Qumran Caves, once inhabited by the Essenes
• Montenegro
  • Ostrog Monastery
• North Macedonia
  • Kališta Monastery, Struga
• Romania
  • Basarabi Cave Complex
  • Corbii de Piatră
  • Nămăiești
• Russia
  • Monastery of the Caves, Nizhny Novgorod
  • Pskov Cave Monastery, Pskov Oblast
  • Divnogorye and Saviour Convent, Voronezh Oblast
• Serbia
  • Blagoveštenje
  • Crna Reka
  • Gornjak
  • Kađenica
  • Churches of Kovilje Monastery
  • Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, also known as the Cave Church, 14th-century church in Lukovo
  • Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in Rsovci, where was painted a unique fresco of bald Jesus
  • Hermitage of St. Peter Koriški
  • Savina
• Thailand
  • Wat Tham Khan, Sakon Nakhon province
  • Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tam Sua), Krabi
• Turkey
  • Cappadocia cave monasteries
  • Cave monastery of İnceğiz
  • Church of Saint Peter
• Ukraine

  

  • Bakhchysarai Cave Monastery in Crimea
  • Chelter-Koba (uk) in Crimea
  • Chylter-Marmara (uk) in Crimea
  • Inkerman Cave Monastery in Crimea
  • Assumption Cave Monastery in Zymne, Volyn Oblast
  • Bakota Cave Monastery in Bakota, Khmelnytskyi Oblast
  • Kachi-Kalon (uk) in Crimea
  • Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Near and Far Caves) in Kyiv
  • Kytaiv Monastery (uk) in Kyiv
  • Shuldan (uk) in Crimea
  • Sviatohirsk Lavra in Sviatohirsk, Donetsk Oblast
  • Yeletskyi Monastery (Saint Anthony's Caves) in Chernihiv