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David Gareja is a rock-hewn Georgian Orthodox monastery complex located in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia,
Hosios Loukas is an historic walled monastery situated near the town of Distomo, in Boeotia, Greece. It is one of the most important monuments of Middle Byzantine architecture and art, and has been listed on UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The monastery of Hosios Loukas is situated at a scenic site on the slopes of Mount Helicon. It was founded in the early 10th century by the hermit, Venerable St. Luke, whose relics are kept in the monastery to this day. The hermit (not the Evangelist of the Gospel of Saint Luke, but a hermit who died on 7 February 953) was famous for having predicted the conquest of Crete by Emperor Romanos. The main shrine of the monastery is the tomb of St. Luke, originally situated in the vault, but later placed at the juncture of the two churches.
Hosios Loukas is the largest of three monasteries surviving from the Middle Byzantine period in Greece. The Katholikon contains the best preserved complex of mosaics from the period of the Macedonian Renaissance.
Moldova - Hancu monastery.
Hancu Monastery was raised up on a nuns’ hermitage in 1678 by the Great High Steward Mihail Hancu due to the wish of one of his daughters, who accepted monasticism under the name of Parascheva. The hermitage had the name of Viadica until the 17th century.
Because of the Tartars invasion, the nuns left the hermitage for another place approximately at the half of the 18th century. After the Russian army arrived in Basarabia under the command of Field Marshall Rumeantev in 1770-1772, the first Hancu family successors asked the hieromonah Varlaam from the Varzaresti Monastery to take care of the abandoned hermitage. Varlaam together with a group of monks, who came with him, took care of the household, and repaired the cells and in time the monastery became a living place for the monks.
In 1817 all the monks at the monastery were Moldovans, who took the habit being hallowed by the Husi bishops and the Metropolitan Bishop of Moldova. They all had good connections with the hermitages and the monasteries from all over Moldova and the Athos mountain. There were three Russian hieromonks in the monastery as well, who ran away from the liberal stream of Queen Catherine the Second. The books for the church and the manuscripts were written in Romanian.
Back in 1817 the church was built of wood, fenced, glued with clay and whitewashed. The roof of the church was made of shingle. Also, it had a belfry attached to the church. The church had an iconostasis of wood with delving flowers gilt with gold. The walls inside of the church were fashioned with many beautiful icons, 8 of which were painted on planks of wood and gilt with gold.
Hancu was the first monastic settlement of Basarabia, where the community life was introduced approximately in 1820-1822.
Both, the inner life of the hermitage, and its community household, developed significantly during the supervision of abbot Dosoftei, Bulgarian by origin.
Since its existence, more precisely at the beginning of 1836, the hermitage is considered to be a monastery. On the place where the wooden church was standing, he raised up in 1835 a church built in stone with the festival Saint Pious Parascheva, but in 1841 he had built another one dedicated to the Holy Virgin Dormition festival. He built cells for the monks as well, brought water into the monastery and took care of the administration bettering.
At the end of the 19th century, the monastery was known under the name of Hancul-Parascheva.
The lands, the fortune and the buildings of the monastery were nationalized in 1944, but in 1965 the monastery had been closed and the monks were chased away.
In 1978 the monastic ensemble was distributed to the Institute of Medicine from Chisinau that set working a sanatorium for people suffering of tuberculosis and opened a leisure station for students and employees. Saint Pious Parascheva summer church was later turned into a club.
Hancu Monastery was re-established as a place for monks in 1990. There is no information about the activity of the monks during those two years they have spent in the monastery. In 1992 the community of monks was abolished.
In the spring of 1992 the monastery for nuns is being established at Hancu. On the 10th of September, 1992, the reconstruction of the monastery was started. In 1993 the reparation of Holy Virgin Dormition winter church had been finished.
The church was framed within the body of the priory, which was built in 1841. It was painted provisionally and hallowed in the same year. In 1998 the interior of the church was repainted.
Saint Pious Parascheva summer church was erected in 1835 and repaired not earlier than 1996.
Three old buildings raised up in 1841 remain untouched on the monastery’s territory. Nuns and sisters started living there after a major overhaul. The number of the ones living there estimates 58 in 1995.
The temple was built of natural stone, brought from Mount Athos, and lit in 1895. A distinctive feature of the monastery are eleven bells, which were cast in the city of Voronezh. All the bells vary in size, the smallest of them weighs five pounds, and the largest - more than a ton. The temple is built in the traditional Byzantine style, with a system of four domes, the largest of which is located in the middle.
Odessa, Ukraine, August 1992
Scaned from Kodachrome slide, taken with Nikon EM
Our Lady of Al-Natour monastery
Is standing on the Cape of Al-Natour, was built by the Crusaders on Byzantine ruins. The monastery is surrounded by large fields of the myrtle (Myrtus Ugni), a nearly extinct plant on the Lebanese coast.
In the last few years, the monastery church and rooms have been renovated, and icons of saints are painted on the church walls.
I found on the internet that this is monastery is 900 years old.
photos taken 26/12/2014
Vardzia is a cave monastery site.
Soviet-era excavations have shown that the area of Vardzia was inhabited during the Bronze Age.
The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred metres and in up to nineteen tiers. The Church of the Dormition, dating to the 1180s during the golden age of Tamar and Rustaveli, has an important series of wall paintings. The site was largely abandoned after the Ottoman takeover in the sixteenth century.
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Seemingly overlooked with little online or guide book presence, the Manduan Monastery in Xishuangbanna is a gem not to be missed. The complex is packed with warm tropical colors, lively frescoes of dragons and flowers, and absolutely fantastic architecture. The monastery was first built in either the 10th or 11th century (information unreliable) but has obviously been rebuilt and updated in more recent times.
The Manduan monastery belongs to the Theravada or "southern" branch of Buddhism, practiced in SW China by the Dai ethnic group and in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma and Sri Lanka as the religion of the overwhelming majority. Theravada means the 'doctrine of the elders', referring to the senior monks. Scholars say that Theravada is the oldest surviving branch of Buddhism that is closer to Buddha's teaching than other forms of Buddhism.
Manduan, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China
The Monastery of Batalha (Portuguese: Mosteiro da Batalha), literally the Monastery of the Battle, is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, in the district of Leiria, in the Centro Region of Portugal. Originally, and officially known, as the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory, it was erected in commemoration of the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota, and would serve as the burial church of the 15th-Century Aviz dynasty of Portuguese royalty. It is one of the best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline style.
There are many beautiful places in the DC area right now; I'd rank the Franciscan Monastery gardens in NE Washington DC at or near the very top. The gardens include thousands of tulips (in so many colors), Dogwoods, Redbuds, Azaleas and more ... all in bloom right now!
There's no admission and plenty of free parking. The tulips won't last too long but the Monastery's sizeable rose garden will follow soon.
Xenophontos monastery is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.
It is built by the sea, standing on the western shore of the Athos peninsula. It was built in the tenth or eleventh century. The monastery is dedicated to St George and has 11 chapels inside and 6 outside. The monastery ranks sixteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. The community has about 55 working monks.
The library contains c. 300 manuscripts and 4,000 printed books.
Toling Monastery is one of the oldest Monastery in Tibet. It is located inside Tsaparang next to Ruins of Guge Kingdom. I took this photo when the sun was shining this Buddha's statue from a roof window.
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Monastero di Khirbet ed-Deir
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Khirbet ed-Deir è uno degli esempi più interessanti di monastero bizantino nel deserto di Giuda ed esprime l’abilità dei monaci di creare un loro mondo e trasformare il deserto in una vera e propria città. La complessità dell’architettura, il lusso dei mosaici e di alcune strutture lascia trasparire un sostegno economico molto importante, una committenza se non imperiale, sicuramente nobile.
Inquadramento topografico del sito del monastero di Khirbet ed-Deir
Khirbet ed-Deir si trova nel Nahal ‘Arugot, zona che è conosciuta in arabo come Wadi el-Ghar. I resti del monastero si estendono al di sopra e intorno ad un’altura rocciosa che sorge a S del Wadi el-Ghar. La massima altezza che essa raggiunge è di circa 380m sul livello del mare. A S dell’altura scorre un piccolo corso d’acqua, le cui piene invernali hanno tagliato la roccia, creando una stretta gola, chiamata in arabo Shi’ib ed-Deir ( “la gola del monastero”), che entra nel Nahal ‘Arugot. Le strutture del monastero si trovano sull’altura e all’interno della gola, che contiene anche cave e insenature che furono incorporate nel monastero; nel suo letto ci sono terreni agricoli e sistemi idrici, che includono le cisterne, la più grande delle quali è conosciuta dai Beduini locali come Bir ed-Deir (“la cisterna del monastero”). Dal punto di vista geografico, Khirbet ed-Deir si trova nella fascia longitudinale centrale del Deserto di Giuda, area caratterizzata da un clima molto arido; infatti, i corsi d’acqua dell’area, compreso il Nahal ‘Arugot, sono tutti effimeri e si dirigono ad E, verso il Mar Morto.
Il suolo dell’area del monastero è molto arido, per la scarsità delle piogge; tuttavia, in epoca antica, parte del terreno era coltivabile, usato per la produzione di cereali ed ortaggi. L’area del monastero è oggi divisa tra due tribù di Beduini, che ancora ne utilizzano alcune strutture, quali le cisterne, mentre l’area della chiesa è adibita al pascolo degli animali.
Jerónimos Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal; it was secularised on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.
The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Rizong Monastery or Rizong Gonpa, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Sevanavank (Armenian: Սևանավանք; meaning Sevan Monastery) is a monastic complex located on a peninsula at the northwestern shore of Lake Sevan in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, not far from the town of Sevan. Initially the monastery was built at the southern shore of a small island. After the artificial draining of Lake Sevan, which started in the era of Joseph Stalin, the water level fell about 20 metres, and the island transformed into a peninsula. At the southern shore of this newly created peninsula, a guesthouse of the Armenian Writers' Union was built. The eastern shore is occupied by the Armenian president's summer residence, while the monastery's still active seminary moved to newly constructed buildings at the northern shore of the peninsula.
Due to easier accessibility (once it became a peninsula), good highway and railway connections with the Armenian capital Yerevan, a well-developed tourist industry in the nearby town of Sevan, and its picturesque location (although less picturesque than it was before the lake level drop), Sevanavank is one of the most visited tourism sights in Armenia.
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Having explored monasteries of Lori province, we headed to the east to visit famous Sevan lake and sights located around its shores. This famous Sevanavank monastery is lovely located at the shores of Sevan lake - truly a picturesque place, especially during quiet evening time with some nice light.
Transfiguration Monastery / Преображенски манастир - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново - Samovodene - България / Bulgaria
It's quite an arduous walk from the town of Pyrgos to the Monastery of Profitis Ilias, but the views are thoroughly worthwhile all the way uphill and you can see all of Santorini when you get to the top.
Most tourists take coaches up there, but if you have an adventurous soul then it's a better idea to try and locate this delightful little pathway. Bordered by crumbling old dry stone walls and curving bedrock, the diversity of wildflowers that run along the borders area a rare treat to behold.
Transfiguration Monastery / Преображенски манастир - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново - Samovodene - България / Bulgaria
I'm back from my trips, and I'm glad we managed to stop at this monastery for a little while. Work is work, but history's beauty is never less important.
Akhtala is a 10th-century fortified Armenian Apostolic Church monastery located in the town of Akhtala 185 kilometers north of Yerevan. The fortress played a major role in protecting the north-western regions of Armenia and is among the most well preserved of all in modern Armenia. The main church at the compound is famous for its highly artistic frescoes, which cover the inside walls, the partitions, and the bearings of the building. The modern name of Akhtala was first recorded in a royal decree of 1438. The etymology of the name is believed to be of Turkic origin, meaning “white glade”.
Since the late 18th century the monastery serviced ethnic Greeks who were settled in Akhtala in order to work in the gold and silver mines. Roughly 800 Greek families were moved from Gümüşhane in the Ottoman Empire to Akhtala in 1763 by the Georgian King Erekle II. The Greeks called the monastery "Meramani". The Greek miners have left inscriptions on the monastery walls. In the 19th century Akhtala was taken over by the Armenian princely family of Melikovs. Currently the monastery has its pilgrimage days on September 20–21. Armenians, Greeks and Georgians visit the monastery on this occasion.
Thanks for your visit and have a great day!
Monasterio de Santa María la Real, Nájera, La Rioja, España.
El monasterio de Santa María la Real es un conjunto religioso situado en la ciudad de Nájera, en la comunidad autónoma de La Rioja (España). En él se encuentra el panteón de los reyes del reino de Nájera-Pamplona, antecesor del reino de Navarra. Al encontrarse Nájera en pleno Camino de Santiago y haber sido sede de monarcas navarros, la relevancia del monasterio de Santa María la Real fue elevada. Desde 2008 se encuentra dentro de parte de las instalaciones del monasterio la Escuela de Patrimonio histórico de Nájera, parte del IPCE y adscrita al Ministerio de Cultura.
El exterior del Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Nájera es una mezcla de diferentes estilos, fruto de su dilatada historia. Las necesidades de defensa hicieron que los muros fueran altos y que los contrafuertes tuvieran función de bastiones. El siglo XVII dejó la decoración de los muros y puertas y la torre cuadrangular. El pórtico de la iglesia se realizó entre los años 1621 y 1625.
Puerta de Carlos I, en gótico flamígero y escudo real con águila bicéfala
Dentro del monasterio distinguimos dos espacios fundamentales: el templo con el panteón Real, y el claustro, llamado de los Caballeros. El acceso al claustro se realiza por la llamada Puerta de Carlos I. Esta puerta es de estilo Gótico flamígero y aparece muy ornamentada; sobre ella hay un gran escudo real con las armas de Carlos I y un águila bicéfala. Este escudo se realizó en honor al rey, que contribuyó generosamente a la construcción del claustro.
Cúpula con trampantojo. A la derecha, pasamanos de la escalera Real
Al lado de la puerta, arranca la escalera de acceso al claustro superior. Esta escalera es de estilo renacentista y está cubierta por una cúpula semiesférica decorada con casetones pintados en trampantojo. El motivo central de la decoración es un ave: el pelícano. En ella figura la fecha de su construcción, año 1594, y recibe el nombre de Escalera Real.
The Monastery of Santa María la Real is a religious complex located in the city of Nájera, in the autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. It houses the pantheon of the kings of the Kingdom of Nájera-Pamplona, the predecessor of the Kingdom of Navarre. Given Nájera's location on the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) and its history as a seat of Navarrese monarchs, the Monastery of Santa María la Real held great significance. Since 2008, the Nájera School of Historical Heritage, part of the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage (IPCE) and affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, has been located within part of the monastery's facilities.
The exterior of the Monastery of Santa María la Real in Nájera is a blend of different styles, reflecting its long history. Defensive needs led to high walls and buttresses that functioned as bastions. The 17th century saw the addition of decorative elements to the walls and gates, as well as the construction of the quadrangular tower. The church portico was built between 1621 and 1625.
Gate of Charles I, in Flamboyant Gothic style, with a royal coat of arms featuring a double-headed eagle.
Within the monastery, we can distinguish two main areas: the church with the Royal Pantheon, and the cloister, known as the Cloister of the Knights. Access to the cloister is through the so-called Gate of Charles I. This gate is in the Flamboyant Gothic style and is highly ornate; above it is a large royal coat of arms with the arms of Charles I and a double-headed eagle. This coat of arms was created in honor of the king, who generously contributed to the construction of the cloister.
Dome with trompe-l'œil. To the right, the handrail of the Royal Staircase.
Next to the gate, the staircase leading to the upper cloister begins. This staircase is in the Renaissance style and is covered by a hemispherical dome decorated with trompe-l'œil painted coffers. The central motif of the decoration is a bird: the pelican. It bears the date of its construction, the year 1594, and is called the Royal Staircase.
Zsámbék: ruins of medieval monastery and cathedral. One of the most important and earliest sites in the history "modern" conservation of national monuments in Hungary.
Stavropoleos Monastery, Bucharest, Romania
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The Monastery is dedicated to ‘Our Lady of the Golden Pomegranate’.
It was established in 1152 by monk Ignatios who, according to popular belief, found a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary off the shore of Paphos.
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Derelict monastery building in Digbeth,Birmingham used as a nightclub.....currently closed due to Covid restrictions.
August 2020