Nikolaevsky Miletsky Monastery

Miltsy Ukraine

[Greek Catholic - Byzantine] Ukrainian Orthodox

The monastery was founded by 1532; the stone church of St. Nicholas of Myra was built for the monks around 1540. The monastery was renamed an abbey in 1713. The Greek Catholic monastery was transferred to the Orthodox Church in 1839. It was closed following World War II and housed a nursing home. A men's monastery was established in the village in 1993 and the monastery was opened in 1994.