Postal Block "Manyava Hermitage" 2003

Manyava Monastery (Ukrainian Athos, Khresto-Vozdvizhenskyi Men's Monastery) is an Orthodox monastery founded by Jov Kniagynytskyi and Ivan Vyshenskyi in 1606 near the village of Manyava (Ivano-Frankivsk district, Ivano-Frankivsk region), an architectural monument of the beginning of the 17th century.

The Manyava Hermitage is an ascetic men's monastery of the Eastern rite, an important center of spirituality, culture and art of Ukraine. Once the Skete had about 200 monks and dozens of subordinate monasteries in Galicia, Bukovina and Moldova. It was one of the centers of cultural life in Galicia. It had a large library, was famous for its main iconostasis, made by the Ukrainian painter Jov Kondzelevich. Later, after the closure of the monastery in 1785, the iconostasis was located in the church of Bogorodchany, since 1924 the iconostasis has been in the National Museum in Lviv named after Andrii Sheptytskyi.

Country - Ukraine
Release Date - 08/15/2003
The circulation - 100 000
Number of stamps in the minisheet - 2
Block size - 115x95 mm
The artist is Kost Lavro