Pochaiv Lavra
| Pochaiv Lavra | |
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Ukrainian: Свято-Успенська Почаївська Лавра | |
General view of the Pochaiv Lavra | |
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| Location | Pochaiv, Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 50°00′18″N 25°30′24″E / 50.00500°N 25.50667°E |
The Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra (Ukrainian: Свято-Успенська Почаївська Лавра, romanized: Sviato-Uspenska Pochaivska Lavra, Russian: Свято-Успенская Почаевская Лавра, Polish: Ławra Poczajowska), also sometimes known as the Pochaiv Monastery, is a monastery and lavra in Pochaiv, Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The monastery tops a 60-metre hill in the town of Pochaiv, 18 km southwest of Kremenets and 70 km north of Ternopil.
The Pochaiv Lavra has been an important spiritual and ideological centre of Eastern Orthodoxy until 1720, then of Greek Catholicism until 1831, after which it returned into the Russian Orthodox fold. In December 2023, after years of disputes, a ruling by the Supreme Court of Ukraine deprived the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) of its prior control of the monastery.