5. Mhar Transfiguration MonasteryMhar The Mhar Monastery is a male monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the bank of the Sula River near Lubny . It was founded in 1619 by Isaia Kopynsky on the money of Princess Regina Wiśniowiecka as a bratstvo designed to become a bulwark of Orthodoxy in the eastern part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.The Ukrainian Baroque katholikon was erected in the 1680s with the help of a generous grant from Hetmans Ivan Samoylovych and Ivan Mazepa. The seven-domed church with six piers was designed by a German architect who had worked on the Trinity Cathedral in Chernihiv. The number of domes was reduced to five after the central cupola had collapsed in 1728. A free-standing Neoclassical bell tower was started in 1785 but was not completed until 60 years later.The monastery grounds con... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.