Holy Trinity Jonah monastery, located in Kiev, is not the oldest, however, it can not attract the attention of many tourists. Its creation is associated with the prediction of the famous St. Seraphim of Sarov, which a novice and is the founder of the monastery of Iona. Eight years later they broke up, but this has not stopped the embodiment of predicted. According to tradition, Jonah was three times saw the image of the Mother of God, reminded that in Kiev you need to make a male monastery, so, finally, in 1847, came to the city, where he met with Metropolitan Philaret. To the creation of the monastery of Iona came thoroughly: for a start, he visited the most famous monastery of Kiev, after reviewing the local life of monks and, in the 60-ies of the XIX century started 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, hospital and Holy Trinity Cathedral of stone.

In the late 90-ies of the monastery was supplemented with a variety of additions – icon workshop, bookbinding, tailoring, metalwork, etc. the Original card of the monastery is the bell tower, project higher than the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The uniqueness lies in the fact that the bell tower was never completed, thus obtaining a rather unusual appearance.

Unfortunately, a large part of the twentieth century, the monastery did not fulfill their original functions, and in fact was neglected. Only in the early 90-ies of XX century Jonah monastery began to revive: were resumed, the remains of the founder of the monastery returned to its place, 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.