Chernigovsky Skit, Orthodox monastery in Sergiyev Posad, Russia

Chernigovsky Skit is a monastery of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra on the north bank of the Skitsky Pond, 3 km east of the lavra. Its red-brick Russian Revival Church of the Chernigov Icon (1886–1889, architect N. V. Sultanov) has five gold onion domes on tiered drums and a five-tier bell tower of 1895. Beneath it lies a cave church dug from 1847.

The skete traces its origin to 1847, when the holy fool Filippushka (Khorev) settled in the Isakov Grove and began digging an underground cell modeled on the Kiev Caves Lavra. The caves were dug until 1851, when a cave church of the Bodiless Powers was consecrated by Metropolitan Philaret on 27 September. In 1852 Alexandra Filippova donated the Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God, after which the skete took its name in the 1890s. The stone Chernigov Church was built in 1886–1889 to a design by N. V. Sultanov and consecrated in 1893.

The monastery holds copies of the Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God that draw pilgrims seeking prayer and reflection. These sacred images remain central to how people experience and visit the place today.

The skete lies 3 km east of the Trinity Lavra on the north bank of the upper Skitsky (Korbushinsky) pond's eastern inlet; the Gethsemane Skete once stood on the opposite bank. The cave church and the Chernigovsky church are among the parts open to pilgrims, while other buildings long housed a children's boarding school. Visitors should dress modestly as at any working monastery.

The cave church was dug by hand from 1847 onward by the holy fool Philippushka, who asked permission merely to dig a cellar and built an underground cell modelled on the Kiev Caves. The caves are man-made, not natural, and the underground Church of the Archangel Michael was consecrated on 27 September 1851.