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In the desert hills near Damascus, Marmusa is a Catholic monastery high above a Muslim land. Those steps winding up from somewhere in the bottom right corner are no fun to climb while carrying a backpack...
I arrived in Syria without a guidebook, but upon meeting some American sisters returning from a wonderful couple days spent at the monastery, I vowed it was my next stop. It's a beautiful place, surrounded by mountains, great place to be solitary if you choose to be. There are generally a few other travelers as well, all of whom are offered hospitality in the monastery. Some stay for weeks, helping with chores. One of my favorite travel experiences ever.
Stakna Monastery or Stakna Gompa is a Buddhist monastery in Leh district, Ladakh, northern India, 21 or 25 kilometres from Leh.
The name, literally meaning 'tiger's nose' was given because it was built on a hill shaped like a tiger's nose.
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Bronnbach monastery interior, view inside the cloisters showing the outward leaning outer arcade.
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Mileševa (Serbian Cyrillic: Милешева) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia. It was founded by King Vladislav, in the years between 1234 and 1236. The church has frescoes by the most skillful artists of that time, including one of the most famous in Serbian culture, the "White Angel", which depicts an angel on Christ's grave.
The monastery is situated in a valley of the Mileševa river, near Prijepolje. Mileševa is one of the most important Serbian sanctuaries and spiritual centers. In 1236, Vladislav moved the relics of his uncle Saint Sava from Trnovo in Bulgaria, where he died, to Mileševa.
Rousannou (Ρουσανου) Monastery was founded around 1545 by Maximos and Ioasaph of Ioannina. The reason for the monastery's name is not known - it is actually dedicated to St. Barbara - but may reflect the name of a hermit who occupied the rock. It soon declined and became subject to Varlaam Monastery by 1614.
The monastery once again fell into disrepair for the two centuries prior to the 1940s, when it was damaged in World War II then plundered by the Germans. It was later repaired by the regional archaeological service and since 1988 it has been occupied by a small community of 13 nuns.
Rousannou Monastery stands on a low rock and is easily accessible by a bridge built of wood in 1868 and replaced by more solid material in 1930. Despite this, its situation is still quite dramatic, with the rock dropping off sharply on all sides.
The monastery covers the entire surface of the rock and consists of three levels: the church and cells occupy the ground floor, while the two upper floors house the guest quarters, reception halls, an exhibition room, and more cells.
The frescoes in Rousannou's Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, which is essentially a smaller version of Varlaam's church, date from 1560. The narthex is decorated primarily with gruesome scenes of martyrdom, as at other Meteora monasteries.
The resident nuns tend to be friendlier to visitors than their male counterparts in Meteora and often provide sweets to guests as they relax in the courtyard.
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Valamon pyhät Sergei ja Herman
Founders of the Valaam Monastery, Sergei and Herman
The monastery was established in its present location in 1940. However, the tradition of the Valamo monastery dates back to 1717. The monastery was then originally established on Valaam, Lake Ladoga, Russia. (Wikipedia)
The Basarbovo Monastery is a complex of churches and living quarters carved into solid rock.
It is just to the south of the city of Ruse on the Danube river, Bulgaria.
Басарбовски манастир
A staple of the Tibetan diet is yak butter tea. Tea from the south is transported to the Tibetan region where locally grown barley is added in making this rather substantial tea drink. Since Tibetan monks were the first to favor this drink, the Tea Horse Road courses from one monastery to the next on its way to Lhasa.
Photo: A rack for drying barley with Songzanlin Monastery in the distance
Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China
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Jvari Monastery, a sixth century Georgian Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, Eastern Georgia
The monastery of the Virgin Mary of Vlacherna was built in the 17th century on the small islet Vlacherna in Corfu, Greece
Sucevița Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox convent situated in the Northeastern part of Romania. It is situated near the Suceviţa River, in the village Sucevița. It is located in the southern part of the historical region of Bukovina. The architecture of the church contains both Byzantine and Gothic elements, and some elements typical to other painted churches of northern Moldavia. Both interior and exterior walls are covered by mural paintings, which are of great artistic value and depict biblical episodes from the Old and New Testament. The paintings date from around 1601, which makes Sucevița one of the last monasteries to be decorated in the famous Moldavian style of exterior paintings.
In 2010, the monastery has been inscribed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted churches of Moldavia.
Transfiguration Monastery / Преображенски манастир - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново - Samovodene - България / Bulgaria
The Samye Monastery [Samye Gompa] was the first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet. It was probably first constructed between 775-9 CE under the patronage of King Trisong Detsen of Tibet who sought to revitalize Buddhism, which had declined since its introduction by King Songtsän Gampo in the 7th century. The monastery is in Dranang, Lhoka Prefecture. It was supposedly modeled on the design of Odantapuri in what is now Bihar, India.
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
The main prayer hall of Bagaya Kyaung, a teak monastery from 1834, on the island of Inwa near Mandalay.
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σήμαντρον - semantron - toaca - τάλαντο
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The semantron (Greek: σήμαντρον) is a percussion instrument used in Eastern, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession.
It is also known as a semandron, semanteriom (σημαντήριον), simantra (σήμαντρα), xylon (ξύλον) and talanto (ταλαντο). In other languages, it is called as follows: Romanian: toacă; Russian: било, bilo; Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian: клепало, klepalo; Arabic: ناقوس, nāqūs; Armenian: կոչնակ, kochnak or gochnag.
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Byzantine chant - Anonymous
The uncompleted hymn Αναστάσεως ημέρα (Hymn of Praise-Resurrection Day) comes from a manuscript dating back to the second half of the 14th century and was preserved at the Library of the Romanian Academy.
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Vlatadon Monastery (Thessaloniki) (14th century)
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Blatadon Monastery (Thessaloniki)
Blatades Monastery (14th century)
Vlatadon Monastery (Thessaloniki)
Vlatades Monastery
Μονή Βλατάδων (Θεσσαλονίκη)
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Vlatadon Monastery was a stauropegion, that is a monastery attached directly to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. It is now the only Byzantine monastery in Thessaloniki still functioning. It is one of the 15 Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki that were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988.
The katholikon is now surrounded by the modern buildings of the Patriarchal Foundation of Patristic Studies founded in 1968. The monastery, dedicated originally to Christ Pantokrator, and is now dedicated to the Transfiguration. It was founded by Dorotheos Vlatis, when he was Metropolitan of Thessaloniki from 1351-71. While the dates are unclear, it is certain that it was taken over by the Ottomans at least for a short period of time. This can be seen in certain architectural features as well as the hammering of the frescoes to secure a better purchase for the plaster with which they were covered when it was converted into a mosque.
The importance and economic prosperity of the monastery, from its very foundation, are attested by the metochra it maintained both inside and outside the city, including the monydrion of Hagios Nikolaos Orphanos.
The katholikon of the monastery is a relatively rare variation of the cross-in-square church, in which the dome is supported not on columns but on the walls of the sanctuary and on two pillars at the west. It has been demonstrated by recent investigations of the monument that this unusual feature was dictated by the existence of an earlier church on the same site, the remains of which still existed in the 14th century and determined the structure of the katholikon. During the course of these investigations, a number of tombs were discovered both inside and outside the katholikon, dating from the 14th to the early 16th century.
The core of the church is enclosed by an ambulatory that ends at the east in two chapels. The north chapel and the north, west and part of the south ambulatory are from a later repair, in 1801. The open porticoes at the south and the west propylon are due to a repair of 1907. The church is constructed of masonry similar to that of the churches of Hagios Nikolaos Orphanos and the Taxiarches, with rows of stones alternating with pieces of brick. The eight-sided dome is brick-built, with brick half-columns at the ends of the sides, and six windows. The decorative brickwork is confined to the sanctuary apse.
Work carried out in 1980-81 uncovered the wall-paintings of the nave and the east wall of the west ambulatory. The iconographic program includes Christ Pantokrator with the angelic powers and full-length prophets on the dome, all overpainted at a later period. On the intrados of the arches are preserved scenes from the Dodekaorton, and the walls have two zones of saints, mainly hermits and monks. In the ambulatory, there are military saints in the lower register, with scenes from the Miracles of Christ above them. The scenes of the Baptism and the 'Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace' in the two small apses in the narthex escaped the hammering received by the other wall-paintings. The paintings in the south chapel, which is dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul, have long been known, but can hardly be seen today because of the soot that has covered them.
The wall-paintings are dated to between 1360 and 1380. The iconostasis probably belongs to the 17th century, though some parts of it, such as the parapet slabs, are 19th century repairs. The iconostasis in the north chapel was also constructed in the 19th century. The sacristy of the monastery contains a large number of very valuable icons, dating from the 12th to the 19th century.
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Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki
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The city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, for several centuries the second-most important city of the Byzantine Empire, played an important role for Christianity during the Middle Ages and was decorated by impressive buildings. Because of Thessaloniki's importance during the early Christian and Byzantine periods, the city contains several Paleochristian monuments that have significantly contributed to the development of Byzantine art and architecture throughout the Byzantine Empire and Serbia.[1] The evolution of Imperial Byzantine architecture and the prosperity of Thessaloniki go hand in hand, especially during the first years of the Empire,[1] when the city continued to flourish. Despite the capture of Thessaloniki by the Ottoman Empire in 1430, the Christian monuments were not destroyed, and travelers such as Paul Lucas and Abdulmejid I[1] document the city's wealth in Christian monuments during the Ottoman control of the city.
In 1988, fifteen monuments of Thessaloniki were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites:[1][2]
City Walls (4th/5th centuries)
Rotunda of Saint George (4th century)
Church of Acheiropoietos (5th century)
Church of St. Demetrios (7th century)
Latomou Monastery (6th century)
Church of St. Sophia (8th century)
Church of Panagia Chalkeon (11th century)
Church of St. Panteleimon (14th century)
Church of the Holy Apostles (14th century)
Church of St. Nicholas Orphanos (14th century)
Church of St. Catherine (13th century)
Church of Christ Saviour (14th century)
Blatades Monastery (14th century)
Church of Prophet Elijah (14th century)
Byzantine Bath (14th century)
Montserrat Monastery is a Benedictine abbey located on the mountain of Montserrat in Catalonia, Spain.
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