Manyava Skete, Eastern Orthodox church building in Manyava, Ukraine

Manyava Skete is a monastery complex of stone and wooden buildings enclosed by a high stone wall with three defensive towers and loopholes, built from 1606. The site lies in a Carpathian valley between fir-covered slopes, with the Bater stream washing three sides. Surviving structures include the treasury tower, the church of Saints Boris and Gleb, and the underground church of Archangel Michael.

Founded in 1606 by Job Knyahynytskyi and Ivan Vyshenskyi, the monastery received stauropegion from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1620 and again in 1748. In 1628 it was granted the title of protos, with 556 monasteries under its authority. Austrian authorities closed it in 1785 under Emperor Joseph II's religious reforms.

The monastery is also called the Ukrainian Athos. Its main iconostasis was painted by the artist Yov Kondzelevych; after the monastery closed in 1785 it was moved to the church in Bohorodchany, and since 1924 it has been kept in the National Museum in Lviv. The monastery holds a wonder-working icon of the Mother of God, "Izbavytelnytsia", painted in 1788 on Mount Athos and given to the monastery in 2003.

The monastery lies in a Carpathian valley about a kilometre from the bridge over the Manyavka, reached by a forest road; the Blessed Stone is a further 300 m beyond a covered wooden footbridge. The complex is enclosed by a high stone wall with towers and loopholes, and the ground includes underground vaulted cellars, so expect uneven surfaces and bring a torch for the darker passages.

The monastery's courtyard hides vaulted underground cellars with secret exits into the mountains and passages linking the buildings. The site is also tied to the Blessed Stone, a 10-by-3-metre rock niche about a kilometre from the bridge over the Manyavka, held to be the first hermit dwelling here.