Complex of structures of architectural monuments of local importance (security number 2070 M).
Lypova Street stretches from the Pochaiv Lavra to the southeast, with an acute angle bypassing the monastery cemetery to the Holy Spirit Monastery.
On the mountain, at a distance of three kilometers from the Lavra is located a monastery. The date of foundation is considered 1219, it was then that the Church of the Transfiguration and the monastery were laid by the Greek monk Methodius with the assistance of patrons. Quiet life in prayer and labor violated the Tatar raids and epidemics of the plague. The restoration dates back to the XVII century, from the fathers Basilian passes to the magnates Czartoryski, so the activity with the printing house and enlightenment alternates with oblivion. 1900 – new restoration: churches, living quarters (cells) was built once again. In the 1960s, the monastery was adapted for a psychiatric hospital. In 1990, services were resumed.
At the beginning of the XVIII century the monastery and the Pochaiv monastery belonged to the community of Greek Catholics. The third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 entailed the accession of Volyn to the Russian Empire, as a result of conversion to Orthodoxy.
When the monastery ceased to exist is unknown, but in documents of 1831 about the return of the Pochaiv monastery to the Orthodox community, it is not listed among the property.
In 1898, archaeologists discovered an old manuscript with the history of the first Pochaiv monastery. Already in 2 years, the land “Skytok”(Skete) was bought to re-lay the monastery in the name of the Holy Spirit. Special efforts to restore were made by the Bishop of Zhytomyr and Volyn Modest.
The new stone church architecture repeated the old. The main Skete temple is brick and has two floors. Built on the highest point of the monastery courtyard – there is this two-tier church, the upper floor is the Holy Spirit Church, and the lower one is St. Seraphim of Sarov.
A gate building with a gate and a gate church leads to the monastery, and built in a brick style in the color of ochre.
The completion of the construction (consecration) of the church in the pseudo-russian style or russian Art Nouveau dates back to 1903. The temple has restored paintings of the 90s of XX century, since its premises were used for other needs during the 60-80s of XX century. Outside, the temple has a rich architectural decor in the form of brickwork, painted walls and blue arrow-shaped domes.
Behind the apse of the temple stands the All Saints Church, characterized by a special brickwork of walls and the absence of plastering of the walls. The temple is painted in the color of ochre.
To the left of the Holy Spirit Church already in the 21st century a church was built in honor of the Iviron Icon of the Mother of God. This is the largest temple of the monastery, where all the statutory services take place. In the same period, a modern bell tower, the premises of an icon shop were built, which create a kind of wall enclosing the courtyard to the right of the gate building.
On the territory of the monastery there is a well, more than a hundred meters deep. The water here is considered healing.
The monastery houses the miraculous Theotokos icons (“Iverska” written in 1912 on Mount Athos, “Fedorivska”, “Surety of Sinners”), also there are particles of the relics of saints from different parts of the world.