Church and monastery of Holy Trinity is a monastery and church of Holy Trinity originally of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, today Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. It is situated in Vilnius, Lithuania. The monastery belongs to the Order of Saint Basil the Great. Beside a church, the monastery compound contains a fortified entrance gate, a university, a hotel complex for visitors, monastic cells including the Konrad's cell. The church surrounded by adjoining four towers at each corner. This monastery tightly entwined with the Union of Brest, personalities like Josaphat Kuntsevych, Archbishop of Polatsk who took vows here and spent first years of his monastic life, as well as a prominent reformer of the Basilian Order, Veliamyn Rutsky.
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