Saint Nicholas Monastery, Eastern Orthodox monastery in Mukachevo, Ukraine

Saint Nicholas Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox religious community located on Chernecha Hora hill in Mukachevo, centered around a cathedral church built in Classicist style between 1798 and 1804. The complex consists of several connected buildings arranged around the main cathedral, creating a unified religious and residential center on the hilltop.

Oral tradition and the preface to the Mukachevo Chronicle date the monastery's founding to the 11th century, while documentary evidence begins in the 14th century. Prince Fedir Koryatovych built a wooden church and monks' quarters on Chernecha Hora and granted the monastery a charter on 8 March 1360. In 1491 it became the residence of the Orthodox bishops of Mukachevo. After the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod, the monastery passed to the Basilian order from 1664 until 1946, when the Soviet authorities transferred it to the Russian Orthodox Church and it became a women's convent.

The monastery's name comes from Saint Nicholas, to whom, by legend, Prince Fedir Koriyatovych attributed his rescue from a serpent; an angel is said to have shown him the site on Chernecha Hora. Monks here copied liturgical books and ran a school modelled on the Ostroh academy. Since 1947 it has been a women's community, and the revered Kikkos and Iveron icons and a reliquary with part of the relics of Moses the Hungarian are kept here.

The monastery stands on the slope of Chernecha Hora above the Latoritsa River, and the climb is on foot. The grounds are an active convent, so visitors should dress modestly and keep to paths open to the public. The church and cells are listed as an architectural monument of national importance (No. 171).

The monastery's library once held over 6,000 rare books and manuscripts, but in 1947 the Soviet authorities moved the collection and archive to Uzhhorod's university library and the Transcarpathian regional archive. The monastery also keeps a revered Kikkos icon of the Mother of God and a reliquary with part of the relics of Moses the Hungarian.