Trinity Ioninsky Monastery

Holy Trinity Monastery of St. John is a male monastery of the Kiev diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , located in Kiev on Zverinets .

Monastery
Holy Trinity Ioninsky Monastery
Holy Trinity Ioninsky Monastir
Trinity Church
A country	Ukraine
City	Kiev , Ukraine
Denomination	Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
Diocese	Kiev
Type of	male
Architect
Established	1868 year
Relics and Shrines	the relics of St. Jonah
Viceroy	Bishop Jonah (Cherepanov)
condition	Acting

It was founded in the 1860s by the archimandrite of the Vydubychi Monastery Iona (Miroshnichenko) on the lands of Princess Ekaterina Vasilchikova , the widow of the Kiev Governor-General . Before World War I, the monastery built the highest bell tower in the Russian Empire (design height 110 m). By 1918, there were more than 800 monks and novices. Acted until 1934 , when it was closed by order of the Soviet authorities. In 1935, the monastery appeared on the territory of the newly founded Botanical Garden of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences .

In 1991, returned to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. By the beginning of the 2000s, the main temple of the monastery was restored - Holy Trinity Church, a bell tower, a clock tower, fraternal buildings were rebuilt. In 1997, the brotherhood of the Ioninsky Monastery began the restoration of caves and the temple of the Zverinetsky Monastery . In 2009, the Zverinetsky Skete stood out as an independent monastery.