10 Hryven Pochaiv Lavra

Pochaiv Lavra, situated in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine, is one of the few Eastern Orthodox monasteries to have survived Soviet anti-religious campaigns with its monastic community largely intact — a result of its location within interwar Polish territory, which delayed full Soviet control until 1939. The monastery was forcibly transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church during Soviet rule and only returned to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 1991.

This coin was issued as part of the National Bank of Ukraine's ongoing Orthodox shrine series, released in the early years following ecclesiastical independence. The Lavra's UNESCO candidacy was active at the time of minting.