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Unfinished Chaple - Batalha Monastery, Portugal - literally the Monastery of the Battle, is a Dominican convent in the civil parish of Batalha, in the district of Leiria.
Monastery of Leça do Balio
This monastery it's today proudly a national monument. It's a MEDIEVAL monument; it's one of the brightest architectural examples representing the transition between the ROMANIC to the GOTHIC styles. The origins are back to X century.
The monastery was built in the century XVI by Diogo Pires.
Where lies today this monastery, there was in the year of 900 (Yeah, really before you and me were both born!! But because we are all becoming obsolete, that it wasn’t much earlier than we were born!!LOL) a CONVENT, probably totally destroyed during the invasions of ALMANÇOR, in the beginning of the century XI.
From it’s Monastery itself, we have only the church remaining these days!!
Here are some links to the Monastery:
www.portugaltravelguide.com/en/leca_da_palmeira.htm
cmmatosinhos.wiremaze.com/pagegen.asp?SYS_PAGE_ID=826230
atelier.hannover2000.mct.pt/~pr146/sminfesi.htm//lazer.pu...
U'll b able to see the photos i took at my: manuworldnews.blogspot.com web. There u'll b able to see this visit tale too.
Monastery is an Orthodox Christian monastery for women of the Church of Romania. It is the largest & also the last built of the painted monasteries of Bucovina. It was built in 1581 by the Bishop of Rădăuţi, Gheorghe Movila. Frescoes are the work of 2 master painters, Ioan and his brother Sofronie from Suceava.
Gelati Monastery
The Monastery of the Virgin - Gelati near Kutaisi (Imereti region of Western Georgia) was founded by the King of Georgia David the Builder (1089-1125) in 1106.
The Gelati Monastery for a long time was one of the main cultural and intellectual centers in Georgia. It had an Academy which employed some of the most celebrated Georgian scientists, theologians and philosophers, many of whom had previously been active at various orthodox monasteries abroad or at the Mangan Academy in Constantinople. Among the scientists were such celebrated scholars as Ioane Petritsi and Arsen Ikaltoeli.
Due to the extensive work carried out by the Gelati Academy, people of the time called it "a new Hellas" and "a second Athos".
The Gelati Monastery has preserved a great number of murals and manuscripts dating back to the 12th-17th centuries.
In Gelati is buried one of the greatest Georgian kings, David the Builder (Davit Agmashenebeli in Georgian).
Arankele Monastery’s sylvan environment and ruins of bathing ponds gives the impression it was once a pleasure park. Arankele, on the contrary, was a 6th century cave hermitage up a forested hillside. The densely wooded terrain crowded with huge hardwood trees are interspersed by the openings and clearings created by the on-going process of clearing scattered debris to unearth the ruins and re erecting the fallen ruins.
This beautiful monastery was built in the 17th century. In 1880 is was used as an children’s asylum and was only used to treat girls. Around 1920 St. Anna was used to treat mentally ill people and currently it is abandoned and left with only memories…
There are a lot of stories going around that children have been abused in there. A lot of things happened behind these walls…
These pictures were taken in 2010.
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The monastery has a rich religious and cultural past spanning more than two centuries. It was founded in 1773-1775 and became one of the richest, most beautiful, and largest monasteries in Moldova.
Several churches were build on the monastery’s premises: St. Demetrius, a wooden church built in 1775 by Ioan Curchi; Naşterea Domnului, a stone church built in 1810; the winter church of St. Demetrius built in 1844; the summer church Naşterea Domnului built in 1872; and the winter church of St. Nicholas (unfinished), built in 1936-1939.
Monastery's main church, the cathedral Naşterea Domnului (1872), was built in baroque style, inspired by the church of St. Andrew in Kiev, which was designed by Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The cathedral has the highest dome in Moldova, rising to a height of 57 meters. (moldovaholiday.travel)
The Neamt Monastery is a Romanian orthodox religious settlement, one of the oldest and most important of its kind in Romania. It was built in the 15th century, and it is an example of medieval Moldavian architecture.
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Transfiguration Monastery / Преображенски манастир - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново - Samovodene - България / Bulgaria
this is an ex monastery, it's a view from the courtyard of the monastery to the olive tree grove outside. The olives are not pink, of course, and the photo itself is beautiful with the green grove, but I felt like experimenting a bit.
The Monastery of the Annunciation, commonly known as the Evangelistria Monastery, is a monastery dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary which sits on a hillside 4 km north of Skiathos Town.
Although some buildings are ruined, the church and accommodation buildings have been restored.
The monastery was founded in 1794 by a group of Kollyvades monks, who had left the monastery of Mount Athos after disagreements about matters of Christian ritual. They were led by an ordained monk, Niphon of Chios, and included Gregorios Hatzistamatis, a local monk who had inherited land on Skiathos from his father.
In 1807, a group of Greek freedom fighters met at the monastery and swore the Oath of Freedom on a newly designed Greek flag, a white cross on a sky blue background, which was woven on a loom at the site.
The Catholicon of the monastery is a Byzantine-style cross-in-square three-aisled church, with three domes, and stands at the centre of the complex. The iconastasis is carved wood and bears icons dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
A museum displays ecclesiastical artefacts and the loom on which the first Greek flag was made.
Today the monastery is served by only four resident monks, three others reside elsewhere.
A regular public minibus service operates from Skiathos Town bus terminus.
Having spent the night in the grottier part of Gyantse, the bit recently added by Chinse settlers, on the 3rd floor of a hotel with no elevator, we have now checked out and travelled round to the old part of town, to see one of the finest monasteries in Tibet. The line of golden prayer wheels leads into Pelkor Chode Monastery. The red walls around the ridge behind, surround the entire monastery.