Resurrection female skete

The hill on which the monastery stands divides two villages, Kyslivka and Buda; Buda was formerly called Monastyrka³. Both villages had long been attached to the church of the Mother of God at Kivshovata and lay almost together, by the brook that runs from Lukianivka into the Ros; according to the description of L. I. Pokhylevych, the first had 486 inhabitants and the second 260, while in 1790 Kyslivka was reckoned to have 24 homesteads and Buda 39⁵.

The wooden church that later gave the hill its name was not built here. It was founded in 1736 by Vovkobrun, then priest of Kivshovata, and, as Pokhylevych noted, it could not have been finished before 1750³. Until about 1850 it stood at Kivshovata, and when it began to fall into ruin the inhabitants asked that it be moved; it was taken down, reassembled on the hill between the two villages and consecrated in honour of the icon of the Mother of God of the Life-giving Spring, and from that time the place came to be called Church Hill³. A separate parish existed at Kyslivka from 1884, although in law the church remained a cemetery church, attached to another parish, until the twentieth century³.

The church was raised not only on the means of the parishioners of Kyslivka and Buda but also on substantial donations from the tenant Mr Makhnovych; besides this, one of the Kyiv banks held a capital sum of 500 roubles left in perpetuity, the interest on which went to the church at Kyslivka, the depositor having wished to remain unknown³. The church was finely painted, held many icons and had two exits, one towards Kyslivka and the other towards Buda; a tall poplar grew beside it, and anyone approaching the village saw the domes of the church and that tree rise first above the horizon³. In the 1930s the church was closed and a collective-farm store was set up in it: grain and apples were brought in by cart, though the icons and the church utensils were left in place and the altar was not desecrated, because the grain was poured only as far as the solea³.

On 18 May 1994 Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, gave his blessing for a parish to be opened at Kyslivka⁴. Services were held at first in an adapted shop building, and the solemn opening took place on 6 November 1994: a moleben was served and the choir of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra sang⁴. A site for the new church was allotted on Church Hill not far from the former one, where a cemetery now stands⁴. Early in 1995 a building team was engaged, the foundation was set out and the pit was dug, but the money ran out⁴.

On 16 May 1996 a moleben was served before the laying of the foundation, led by Archimandrite Prokhor, superior of the Holy Trinity Monastery of Kitaiv Hermitage; on 18 May the foundation was laid, and on 15 June the consecration took place, attended by Seraphim, Bishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, a choir from Bila Tserkva and the priests of the deanery, and a wooden cross was set up on the site of the laid foundation^{4, 2}. For want of funds the building went no further, and services were held in a wattle-and-daub church put up temporarily on the church ground². In the summer poles were cut in the water meadow, a wooden frame was made and people were called to a communal work day: horses mixed the clay with straw, the walls were made of that simple material, and the old women plastered and whitewashed them all; a small iron stove was set between the choir and the altar, and it sometimes gave off so much smoke that the church had to be aired for about an hour⁴.

A community began to gather around the church and lived by a monastic rule: they did handwork, plaited prayer ropes and made wax candles and incense, and with the money they earned they bought building materials⁴. There was no housing, so they crowded into a builder's trailer, the refectory was out of doors, and water was brought up to Church Hill by horse; in winter someone was always on duty at the stove, they put on every piece of clothing that came to hand and covered themselves with two or three blankets, books and belongings were kept in bags under the trailer, and many could not endure such trials and left⁴. The reading of the Psalter was organised in the parish, and an unquenchable lamp was lit before the Iveron icon of the Mother of God⁴.

In 2000 work began on a residential block with cells, a refectory and a house church². In the same year the first Christmas performance for the parishioners was arranged, and from then on a costumed children's performance with competitions, quizzes and games was prepared on Church Hill at Pascha and at Christmas⁴. In the summer of 2001 the wonderworking Rudosilska icon of the Mother of God was brought and carried round Kyslivka and Buda⁴. Since there were no funds to raise the church on the laid foundation, a small church in honour of the icon of the Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow was built beside the residential block; its solemn consecration on 30 October 2003 was led by Seraphim, Bishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, with the priests of the deanery concelebrating^{4, 2}.

From 2004 a Sunday school began to work on Church Hill, where the children were taught the Law of God, sang, worked in the church and prepared festal performances⁴. That same autumn new bells were consecrated, and in November 2004 the liturgy began to be celebrated daily in the church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow, with priests of the Tarashcha deanery and of other deaneries taking part⁴. In 2006 the first storey of the large two-storey Resurrection church was raised on the laid foundation and a temporary roof was put over it^{4, 2}. On 17 July 2008 Archimandrite Nikodym, secretary of the Bila Tserkva Diocese, visited the Resurrection community⁴.

On 23 September 2008 the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, having heard the report of Mytrofan, Archbishop of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, by journal No. 80 blessed the opening of a convent in honour of the Holy Regal Martyrs in the village of Kyslivka, Tarashcha District, of the Bila Tserkva Diocese¹. In the spring of 2009 the temporary roof over the first storey was removed and work on the second storey continued; at the same time a stone wall was being laid on the monastery ground, the residential block was being extended, the old school - a former manor house - was being reconstructed, and a foundation was laid for an icon-painting workshop². By journal No. 32 of the session of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of 6 December 2019, the convent in honour of the Holy Regal Martyrs in the village of Kyslivka, Tarashcha District, Kyiv Region, was reorganised into a monastery in honour of the Holy Regal Passion-bearers in the village of Buda in the same district⁶.