Mhar Monastery

The Verklärungskloster of MHAR (Ukrainian Спасо - Преображенський Мгарський монастир / Spaso- Preobraschenskyj Mharskyj monastyr ) is a male monastery east of the central Ukrainian city Lubny. It lies on a hill on the right bank of the river Sula.

History

The monastery was founded by the later Kievan metropolitans Isajja Kopynskyj and the Polish nobles Wischnewezka Rajna (born Mohiljanka ) in 1619, which was sister of the Kiev Metropolitan Petro Mohyla. 1622 a brotherhood was founded in the monastery of Isajja Kopynskyj which counteracted the catholicization the left-bank Ukraine.

1682-1754 was built the stone Transfiguration on the site of an older church at the instance of hetmans Ivan and Ivan Mazepa Samojlowitsch by the architect Johann - Baptist Sauber ( Ivan Baptist ). In addition, there are still four other monuments from the 18th - 20th Century on the grounds of the monastery.

1919, the monastery was closed by the Bolsheviks, most monks were killed. After that, the monastery served as a children's camp, from 1937 as a penal colony, and from 1946 as an army base before it was in 1985 handed over to the Pioneer organization. Since 1993, it meets his old function as a monastery.

The monastery is the burial place of Jossyf Tukalskyj - Neljubowytsch (? -1675 ).