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The monastery became a national sanctuary in honor of the Cretan resistance when during a revolt in 1866, 943 Greeks, mostly women and children, sought refuge in the monastery.
After three days of battle and under orders from the hegumen (abbot) of the monastery, the Cretans blew up barrels of gunpowder, choosing to sacrifice themselves rather than surrender.
The Greek Orthodox Monastery of Machairas was founded at the end of the 12th century. It is set deep in the Troodos mountains at an altitude of about 900m. At that time, the Orthodox Church was persecuted by the Catholic Frankish conquerors and any new monasteries were "hidden" far from built up areas.
It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and close to the small village of Lazanias.
In 1720, another church of wood was been built in Bârsana. In 1791, the Monastery was abolished. On the hearth Monastery, only the Church and Abbey remain.
To protect the church from desecration and destruction, the believers from Bârsana moved it closer to the village, in 1806. In this place it is found nowadays.
The old church of Bârsana has a particular cultural importance, being included in the UNESCO list of heritage buildings. This church is a valuable historical monument and it expects to be returned in the old place and reassigned to the current complex of the Monastery of Bârsana.
The former Servite monastery Schönbühel is located on a rock 500 m downstream from Schönbühel Castle on the right bank of the Danube and was built from the 1760s. In 1980 the Servite monks left the monastery; it is looked after today as a parish church. Wikipedia
A different perspective from the Saint Nikolas/Monastery (since 1904)
Near Vistonida Lake # Porto Lagos # Greece.
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Novodevichy Virgin-Smolensky Monastery - Orthodox women's, a monastery in Moscow. Founded by Grand Prince Vasily III in 1524. During the first two centuries of its existence, served as place of imprisonment royals females.
The architectural ensemble of the monastery, formed in the XVI-XVII centuries, ever since has not undergone significant changes. As an exceptional preservation of the sample Moscow baroque put under the protection of UNESCO and declared heritage of all mankind.
St. Cyril's Monastery, used to be the largest monastery and the strongest fortress in Northern Russia.
The monastery was consecrated to the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, for which cause it was sometimes referred to as the Dormition Monastery of St. Cyril.
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Beyond the Stone Creek, on a hill called in ancient times "Ogneva Gora", stands the Alekseevsky, now a female, monastery. Once upon a time this place was a pagan temple. This is the oldest monastery in Uglich and one of the oldest in Russia.
It was founded according to the plan of Metropolitan Alexy in 1371 to strengthen the position of Moscow in the Upper Volga region, after the destruction of Uglich by Michael of Tver. This date is generally accepted, but rather conditional. According to some sources, the abode is 80 years older.
The main pearl of the monastery is the three-tent church - the Assumption Brave. The church was built in 1628 in memory of the people who died during the siege of the monastery during the Polish-Lithuanian intervention (1608-1611). The monastery was completely destroyed, all the brethren and the townspeople who were hiding in it, and this is about 600 people, were killed.
The church ruin of the Holy Grave, also known as the Schöntal ruin, is the ruin of the Beguine Monastery church, which was built between 1543 and 1545 and burned down in 1552. This was built by Archbishop Albrecht von Brandenburg around 1500 in the "Tiergarten zu Aschaffenburg". In 1540 he made his partner Agnes Pless his abbess. Already in the Schmalkaldic War in 1546 and a few years later in the Second Margrave War in 1552, the building was largely destroyed. With the dissolution of the Beguine Convent, the Aschaffenburg Church of the Holy Sepulcher was left to decay. Since the church building only stood for a short time, the presence of the beguines in Aschaffenburg's local history has only been handed down in the zoo. The ruins were later included in the park design.
Die Kirchenruine zum Heiligen Grabe, auch als Schöntalruine bekannt, ist die Ruine der 1543 bis 1545 erbauten und 1552 niedergebrannten Kirche des Beginenklosters. Dieses wurde vom Erzbischof Albrecht von Brandenburg um das Jahr 1500 im „Tiergarten zu Aschaffenburg“ errichtet. Zu dessen Äbtissin machte er 1540 seine Lebensgefährtin Agnes Pless. Bereits im Schmalkaldischen Krieg 1546 und wenige Jahre später im Zweiten Markgrafenkrieg 1552 wurde das Gebäude weitestgehend zerstört. Mit der Auflösung des Beginenkonvents wurde die Aschaffenburger Grabeskirche dem Verfall preisgegeben. Da das Kirchengebäude nur kurze Zeit stand, hat sich die Anwesenheit der Beginen in der Aschaffenburger Lokalgeschichte nur im Tiergarten überliefert.Die Ruine wurde später in die Parkgestaltung mit einbezogen.
New Jerusalem Monastery in a frame of autumn nature..In the middle of the 17th century, Patriarch Nikon decided that Russia should have its own Jerusalem and, having bought the land around the large village of Voskresensky (now the Moscow city of Istra), founded a monastery in 1656..Already in 1658, the main temple of the monastery was laid - the magnificent Resurrection Cathedral, whose project was created in the image and likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. A monastery of Patriarch Nikon is being built on the banks of the Jordan..A few years later, Patriarch Nikon fell into disgrace, and the government ceased to support the monastery. In the following centuries, it experienced different times: some kings tried to reduce funding, while others, on the contrary, pledged a lot of money. By the beginning of the 20th century, the monastery was one of the richest in Russia..During the Great Patriotic War in 1941, the Germans blew up the monastery, after the war it was almost completely rebuilt. Full restoration completed in 2016
The Pochaiv Lavra of God's Mother Dormition is an Orthodox Monastery in Poczajów, Ukraine. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the most important center of Orthodox monastic life in Volhynia and Ukraine.
The history of the monastery dates back to the 13th and even the 12th century. Initially, there was a hermitage here, then an Orthodox monastery, then a Uniate Basilian monastery and again an Orthodox church of the Moscow rite. Its history is turbulent, as is the political history of these lands.
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Ławra Poczajowska Zaśnięcia Matki Bożej w Poczajowie jest prawosławnym klasztorem w Poczajowie na Ukrainie. Podlega jurysdykcji Ukraińskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego Patriarchatu Moskiewskiego, najważniejszy ośrodek prawosławnego życia monastycznego na Wołyniu i Ukrainie.
Historia monastyru sięga XIII wieku a nawet XII wieku. Początkowo była tutaj pustelnia, później kolejno klasztor prawosławny, unicki Bazylianów i ponownie prawosławny obrządku moskiewskiego. Jego historia jest burzliwa, podobnie jak historia polityczna tych ziem.
The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region..The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow..In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, miners of the German fascist SS division "Reich" blew up the Resurrection Cathedral. Many architectural monuments were destroyed..The restoration of the monastery, which is the only successful attempt to recreate the image of the Holy Land, was completed at the end of 2016..In the Resurrection Cathedral, as in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, there are three main shrines of Christians:.Golgotha is a small rock where Christ was crucified (in Greek the word “Golgotha” means a frontal place).Cuvuclia - a small chapel with the Holy Sepulcher, the burial place of Christ.Temple of the Resurrection of the Savior, the place of the life-bearing resurrection of Jesus Christ..Golgotha, the place of the crucifixion of Christ, is located on the second tier of the temple; a staircase to the right of the main entrance leads to it. In a small room there is a cross, made in Jerusalem and the same size as the Jerusalem Cross of God. A stone with a crack is also installed here, imitating a rock that broke at the time of the Savior's death, when the blood of Christ was shed on it.
High up in the Troodos mountains is the richest and most famous Cyprus monastery. Built around the end of the 11th century it houses the icon of the Virgin painted by the Apostle Luke.
Der Kapitelsaal ist die Versammlungsstätte einer klösterlichen Gemeinschaft. Oft befindet er sich im Ostflügel der Klausur und ist vom Kreuzgang aus zu erreichen.
Der Begriff leitet sich her aus der Gepflogenheit von klösterlichen Gemeinschaften, ihre Versammlungen mit einer geistlichen Lesung eines Kapitels aus der Ordensregel oder aus den Schriften der Kirchenväter zu beginnen. Der Ort dafür wurde im Lauf der Zeit als Kapitelsaal bezeichnet.
Dort fanden alltägliche wie auch herausgehobene nicht-liturgische Zusammenkünfte statt, in denen die Angelegenheiten der Gemeinschaft beraten wurden.
Besonders in der kalten Jahreszeit konnte auch das Stundengebet im Kapitelsaal stattfinden.
Der Walkenrieder Kapitelsaal ist seit 1570 evangelische Kirche. Das Gewölbe des wird von kapitelllosen Säulen getragen.
Die ursprüngliche farbige Fassung der Gewölberippen wurde in den 1980er Jahren nach Befund rekonstruiert.
Die Ausstattung des Kapitelsaals – Altarretabel, Epitaph und Holzkanzel – stammt mit Ausnahme der spätromanischen Standpiszine (Waschbecken) aus nachmönchischer Zeit.
Als Kirchensaal erhielt der Raum 1667 eine barocke Holzkanzel, die von Konrad Bonifacius aus Ellrich gefertigt wurde. Der Kanzelkorb wird von einem Delfin und einem Engel getragen. An den Brüstungsfeldern des Korbes sind eine Christusfigur, eine Figur Martin Luthers sowie Darstellungen der Evangelisten angebracht.
(Quelle: www.kloster-walkenried.de/de/museum/museum/architektur)
In dem über 1.250-jährigen ehemaligen Benediktinerkloster Benediktbeuern, am Rande des Loisach-Kochelsee-Moores, wirken seit 1930 die Salesianer Don Boscos, eine katholische Ordensgemeinschaft, die sich weltweit für junge Menschen einsetzt.
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Benediktbeuern Abbey is a monastery of the Salesians of Don Bosco, originally a monastery of the Benedictine Order (founded around 740 AD), in Bavaria.
Roussanou Monastery, Meteora, Thessaly, Greece.
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Organ of Beuron Monastery Church St. Martin (June, 22)
Beuron Abbey was founded as an Augustinian monastery in the 11th century.
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Simat de la Valldigna, Spain, Monastery
The monastery was founded in 1297 by James II of Aragon. Since the beginning, it was one of the most important monasteries of the Cistercian order. It was founded by the monks of Santes Creus in the Tarragona province. The whole Valldigna valley belonged to the monks, according to a royal order.
The monastery was inhabited by monks until 1835, when a revolt in the Valldigna valley took place after the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal. After that, the monks were forced to abandon the monastery. Most of its goods and works of art were sold, plundered or destroyed.
This ancient Cistercian monastery was neglected and in ruins, until the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Government) began a process of restoration.
After decades of abandonment, now the monastery of Santa Maria de Valldigna is, according to the 57th article of the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community, "the spiritual, historical and cultural temple of the ancient Kingdom of Valencia. It is as well a symbol of the grandeur of the Valencian people". The same article states that "the Generalitat Valenciana will recover, restore and preserve the monastery (...) a law from the Valencian Parliament will determine the destiny and usage of the monastery as a meeting point of all Valencians, and as a research center for the recovery of the Valencian Community history".
Solovetsky Monastery was an another great attraction for me for years. It was found in 1429 and used to be a place of strong people, full of spirit and faith. For a long time in XX century, these islands in White Sea were the place of GULAG. For all the Russians this place represents the power and the fortitude of the spirit.
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We visited this place in the best time of the year, when the sky is clear and the temperature is higher than 0 Celcius:-) Here is the early morning panorama of 3 shots, hdr. Original size - 7796x4210 pics.
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A long exposure of Mar Saba Monastery
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Zanskar is the most isolated valley in India and Phuktal is the remotest part of Zanskar. The Phuktal monastery is the epitome of monks living high up in the mountains, detached from the rest of the world. By the time we reached the Phuktal monastery the monks had gathered for lunch. This was the view at the meal times. It won't cost you a dime. Just a lifetime of being a monk!
Read the full story of our visit to Phuktal monastery at Trek to Phuktal Monastery.
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The Monastery of Ostrog (Serbian: Манастир Острог/Manastir Ostrog) is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church sitatued against an almost vertical background, high up in the large rock of Ostroška Greda, in Montenegro. It is dedicated to Saint Basil of Ostrog (Sveti Vasilije Ostroški), who was buried here.
The monastery is located 50km from Podgorica and 15km from Nikšić.
Ostrog monastery is the most popular pilgrimage place in Montenegro.
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Abendstimmung über dem ehemaligen Kloster Liebfrauenberg.
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View from the grounds of Râmeț monastery, Romania, in case anyone is wondering, the funky t with the hook at its bottom is pronounced ts. Happy Sunday to everyone.
The Augustinian monastery "Stift Vorau" lies in northeast Styria (Austria), in municipality Vorau. The cloister goes back to a foundation of margrave Ottokar III von Traungau in 1163
Great Meteoron Monastery at dusk, Meteora, Thessaly, Greece.
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