Holy Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas, located in Kiev, is not the oldest, however, he can not attract the attention of many tourists .  Its creation is associated with the prediction of the famous St. Seraphim of Sarov, a novice who is the founder of the monastery of Iona .  Eight years later they broke up, but this did not prevent the embodiment of the predicted .  According to legend, three Jonah saw the image of the Mother of God, which is reminiscent of that in Kiev have to make a monastery, so finally in 1847, came to the city, where he met with Metropolitan Filaret .  By building the monastery Jonah walked detail: First, he visited the most famous monastery in Kiev, acquainted with the life of the local monks, and in the 60s of the nineteenth century began to work .  First there was erected a two-story wooden house, and Trinity Church, but only in 1866, the emperor agreed to the establishment of the monastery .  Later, the monastery was added to the school-orphanage, a hospital and the Holy Trinity Cathedral of stone .

In the late 90-ies the monastery was supplemented with a variety of additions - the icon-painting workshop, bookbinding, tailor, locksmith, etc. The original card is the bell tower of the monastery, the project is higher than the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The uniqueness lies in the fact that the bell tower that has not been completed, thus obtaining a rather unusual appearance.

Unfortunately, most of the twentieth century, the monastery is not fulfilling its original functions and actually was in ruins. Only in the early 90-ies of XX century monastery Jonah began to revive: the service was resumed, the remains of the founder of the monastery returned to his seat, was a large-scale restoration. Now the monastery is not only a monument of architecture, but also a center of spiritual and educational life of Kiev.