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Cloister of the Monasterio de Santa María de Valdediós. This is a 13th-century Cistercian monastery near Villaviciosa, Asturias, northern Spain.
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The Holy Monastery of Karakallou is one of the twenty monasteries on Mount Athos, Greece, and ranks 11th in the Athonite hierarchy. It is located on the southeastern side of the Athos peninsula, between the monasteries of Great Lavra and Iviron.
Founded in the 11th century, the monastery was named after its founder, possibly a monk named Karakalas. Over the centuries, it has suffered pirate attacks, destruction, and rebuilding. The monastery follows the coenobitic monastic tradition, meaning that the monks live communally, sharing everything.
The Church and Friary of St Francis, known locally as Gorton Monastery, is a Grade II* listed former Franciscan friary in Gorton, Manchester, England. It was designed by the noted Victorian architect Edward Welby Pugin and built 1866–1872. Gorton Monastery is a noted example of Gothic Revival architecture.
The building ceased to be used for Christian worship in 1989 and fell derelict for many years. After a restoration programme, it reopened as a secular events venue in 2007.
Likir Gompa, around 62 kms to the West of the main city of Leh. The 5th king of Ladakh, Lhachen Gyalpo ordered the establishment of this monastery and thus it was established in 1065 by Lama Duwang Chosje. The monastery is of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. In the times of today, Buddhist teachings and the three basic Pratimoksa disciplines are preached on the site.
The Sumela Monastery (Greek: Μονή Παναγίας Σουμελά, Moní Panagías Soumelá; Georgian: სუმელას მონასტერი, Sumelas monasteri; Turkish: Sümela Manastırı) is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia, meaning "All Holy" in Greek) at Melá Mountain (Turkish: Karadağ, which is a direct translation of the Greek name Ssou Melá, "Black Mountain"[1]) within the Pontic Mountains (Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Dağları) range, in the Maçka district of Trabzon Province in modern Turkey.
According to another version of decryption of the monastery complex name, it comes from Laz word sumeli which means "Trinity" in English.
Nestled in a steep cliff at an altitude of about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) facing the Altındere valley, it is a site of great historical and cultural significance, as well as a major tourist attraction within Altındere National Park. On 22 September 2015 the monastery was closed to the public for the duration of one year. During this time the monastery will be further restored, in order to qualify for the UNESCO World Heritage List. At the same time, a geological study is being conducted on the rock face towering over the monastery due to an increase in seismic activity in the area
Sera Monastery - visitors and locals Buddhist followers will tie the scarfs on the doorway to gift the God - Sera Monastery, Lhase, Tibet (血清修道院, 拉萨)
Monastery. Wenchi Crater, Oromia, Ethiopia 6 May 2013
A small monastery is located on one of the islands in the Wenchi Crater lake.
La Multi Ani celor ce poarta numele Mihai, Gabriel, Mihaela, Gabriela !
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Following tradition, the Holy Monastery Govora part of the first Romanian monasteries across the country. Testimonials more precise look like Vlad the Monk (1481.1482-1495) to intarrit some of the community estate since 1488. The first is known founder Radu the Great (1495-1508) son of Vlad the Monk, during which Govora Monastery get one of the richest and most populous of the monk.
During Matei Basarab (1632-1643). Govora Monastery reach one of the main cultural centers of the time, the book printed in the country, here operating a school of printing, and general knowledge. In printing the Govora, installed during the reign of Matei Basarab was printed, among other books, and the first book in Romanian law, ‘the little Rule “in 1640.
Constantin Brancoveanu by Hieromonk Paisius, abbot of the holy monasteries, began a series of renovations and completion of the whole monastery.
Govora monastery church, dedicated to the Assumption, as presented today, is the time of Constantine Brancoveanu. Located in the middle of the enclosure, the church has a trefoil shape with polygonal apses and an open porch with carved stone columns.
Brancoveanu painting style is natural in the years 1711-1712, the school apartinanad Hurez painters and we are known from inscriptions that have been preserved: Joseph, patron, Demetrius, Theodosius, Nicholas and Stephen monk. Carpentry wood church with beautiful floral gilded semireliefate, high artistic value. Simple whitewashed exterior is decorated with a painted median waist.
Fully restored in 1958, all Govora monastery suffered damage following the two earthquakes in 1977 and 1986. With Holy Bishops and Mining Enterprise Berbesti, the whole monastery was restored between 1986-1988.
Source : " Romanian Orthodox Monasteries and Church "
Geghard is a medieval monastery in the Kotayk province of Armenia, being partially carved out of the adjacent mountain, surrounded by cliffs. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with enhanced protection status
Chemrey Monastery or Chemrey Gompa is a 1664 Buddhist monastery, approximately 40 kilometers (25 mi) east of Leh, Ladakh, northern India. It belongs to the Drugpa monastic order. It was founded in 1664 by the Lama Tagsang Raschen and dedicated to King Sengge Namgyal.
The monastery has a notable high Padmasambhava statue. It also contains a valuable collection of scriptures, with title pages in silver and the text in gold letters.The monastery is also a venue for the festival of sacred dances which takes place on the 28th and 29th day of the 9th month of the Tibetan calendar every year.
The monastery comprises a number of shrines, two assembly halls (Du-Khang) and a Lama temple (Lha-Khang). The main attraction of the monastery is the one story high statue of Padmasambhava. Another big attraction is the 29 volume scripture written in silver and golden letters. The monastery holds every year the Chemrey Angchok festival of sacred dances. It takes place on the 28th and 29th day of the 9th month of the Tibetan calendar.
The Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Mongolian Buddhist monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar that has been restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy".
Chemrey Monastery or Chemrey Gompa is a 1664 Buddhist monastery, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Leh.
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Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia
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The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world.
Located in Thikse village, this monastery is about 15kms from Leh. The Thiksay monastery is from the largest in central Ladakh and has a total of 12 storeys.
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Mraconia Monastery as seen from Djerdap national park, north-eastern Serbia
Djerdap National Park: Day 1
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ENG.: The monastery (Abbey) dome Weltenburg Kelheim in Bavaria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltenburg_Abbey
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The Shwenandaw Monastery is a marvel of traditional Burmese art and one of the sights of Mandalay. Teak monasteries can be found at many locations in Myanmar, but few as beautifully adorned as this one.
The present building was originally part of the former royal palace at Amarapura but was moved to it's present location in Mandalay in the 1870s to form a prayer hall for the adjoining monastery.
Today it is a popular visitor attraction for the wealth of beautiful wood carvings adorning it's exterior.
The church of Panagia Pantanassa is one of the most important monuments of the first half of the 15th century.
Founder of the Catholic and the monastery was protostrator Fragopoulos John, who left monograms and inscription with the name and titles of the windows on the west, the south chapel and the circular base of the dome of the narthex. The inauguration of the monastery took place in September 1428.
Panagia Pantanassa belongs to the mixed type of Mystras, its type is basilica on the ground floor and temple complex cruciform with a dome on the floor.
Intense is the Frankish influences in the apse, with gothic arches surround lobed windows in the tall steeple where trilobal openings framed by a large “broken” Gothic arch, and the tall domed ceiling, accompanied by four small towers.
The Monastery of Batalha (Mosteiro da Batalha) is a Dominican convent in the Centro Region of Portugal. 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.
Schoenthal Monastery, first mentioned in 1145, includes one of the oldest churches in Switzerland. It is considered a showpiece of Romanesque architecture. Its western façade features ashlar masonry, a portal with a depiction of a lamb carrying a cross, and an arch supported by a lion baring its teeth on one side, and by a man on the other. The inscription on the arch reads: HIC EST RODO.
Of the murals on the inside of the church, a depiction of St. Christopher has been preserved above the gateway to the cloister dating from about 1310/20. Behind the eastern façade, fragments can be seen of an angel swinging a censer; these date from around 1430. The bell in the steeple was cast in Aarau in the 15th century. The deconsecrated monastery was used for various commercial purposes over a period of 500 years. As of 1986, the new owner had extensive renovations carried out in collaboration with the canton’s departments of archaeology and the preservation of historical monuments. The latter recommended using the traditional plaster made of slaked lime.
Gradac Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Градац) an endowment of queen Helen was built from 1277 to 1282 during the reign of her son king Stefan Dragutin. It lies on the elevated plateau above the river Gradačka, at the edge of the forested slopes Golija. Gradac Monastery was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Serbia.
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Троянски манастир „Успение Богородично“, (Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God); the third largest monastery in Bulgaria, and was founded no later than the end of the 16th century.
The Holy Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Kykkos was founded around the end of the 11th century by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and lies at an altitude of 1,318 m (4,324 ft) on the north west face of the Troodos Mountains. The current building dates to about 1745 and is home to the icon of the Virgin Mary painted by the Apostle Luke.
The monastery of Monserrat is in an amazing dramatic location. It's just a gorgeous area. This is my Monserrat mega-post, with many additional images in the comments.
The Panagia Theoskepastos monastery was a Orthodox Christian monastery founded by the Pontic Greeks (then identifying themselves as "Romans" or "Romaioi") around a former Mithraic cave on the mount Mithrion ("Boztepe") behind the old town. In antiquity, the people of Trapezous were devout in their worship for the Hellenized Persian God of Mithras, reflecting its situation between Greece and Persia. In the Middle Ages, like many other Mithraic caves, it was appropriated for Christian rites.
It already functioned in the late 13th century during the reign of emperor Alexios II Megas Komnenos during the (Roman) Empire of Trebizond (1204-1461). It was then a nunery and even housed prominent imperial family members. One of them, Anna Anachoutlou, who was partly of Georgian descendance from the Jaqeli family, was a nun here, when she was called up by powerful local lords like Niketas Scholaris to travel to Lazika in the empire's eastern mountains, to gather an army of Laz warriors to topple down the usurper Eirene Palaiologina. Eirene Palaiologina was an illegitimate daughter of the Constantinopolitan emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. Perhaps because of too much influence of Constantinople, or marital issues, the Trapezuntine emperor Basileios Megas Komnenos (1332-1340), a usurper himself, set her aside in favour of a local mistress also named Eirene. This caused a civil war, in which Eirene Palaiologina might have murdered Basileios and took temporarily the rule of Trebizond. Anna Anachoutlou then left the Theoskepastos nunnery, which was quite a tabboo at that time, to reconquer Trebizond for the Komnenian family. She succeeded at it. However, something went wrong when she then had to hand over rule to a male family member, Michael Megas Komnenos. She then usurped herself to rule the empire for a year, before she was eventually captured by Niketas Scholaris and executed by estrangulation in 1342.
After the civil war, emperor Alexios III Megas Komnenos (1349-1390) endowed further the monastery. Probably it received then another layer of high quality fresco paintings. At the present, 3 layers of frescoes are still visible in the cave church, although damaged by mold and fire (although still able to be renovated?). Various emperors and family members were burried here, the remains of graves are still visible. It remained a nunnery into the Ottoman period and was continuously expanded with new buildings, until the Pontic Greeks left after the population exchange in 1923. It is now known as the Kizlar (Maiden) monastery, and the complex has recently been renoved. It is similar to the Sumela monastery, but then inside the city.
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, 18 km away from the city of Rădăuţi, Suceava County. It is located in the southern part of the historical region of Bukovina (northwestern Moldavia). It was built in 1585 by Ieremia Movilă, Gheorghe Movilă and Simion Movilă.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. The interior court of the monastic ensemble is almost square (100 by 104 meters) and is surrounded by high (6 m), wide (3 m) walls. There are several other defensive structures within the ensemble, including four towers (one in each corner). Sucevița was a princely residence as well as a fortified monastery. The thick walls today shelter a museum that presents an outstanding collection of historical and art objects. The tomb covers of Ieremia and Simion Movilă – rich portraits embroidered in silver thread – together with ecclesiastical silverware, books and illuminated manuscripts, offer eloquent testimony to Sucevița's importance first as a manuscript workshop, then as a printing center.
In 2010, the monastery has been inscribed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted churches of Moldavia.
Diskit Monastery also known as Deskit Gompa or Diskit Gompa is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India. It belongs to the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded by Changzem Tserab Zangpo, a disciple of Tsong Khapa, founder of Gelugpa, in the 14th century.
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Buddhist monks in the morning on the roof of Thiksey Monastery. Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Ladakh : Day 4
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San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore è una chiesa di Milano di origine paleocristiana, ricostruita nel Cinquecento e già sede del più importante monastero femminile della città appartenente all'ordine benedettino. E' decorata internamente con un vasto ciclo affreschi di scuola leonardesca e viene indicata come la "Cappella Sistina" di Milano o della Lombardia
San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore is a church in Milan, It was originally attached to the most important female convent of the Benedictines in the city, Monastero Maggiore, which is now in use as an archaeological museum.
The complex was founded in Lombard times, partially re-using ancient Roman edifices. Of these there remain a polygonal tower, a relic of the ancient Maximian walls, and a square one, originally part of the lost Hippodrome and later adopted as the church’s bell tower. The monastery is now home to Milan's Archaeological Museum.
The construction began in 1503 under design of Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono in collaboration with Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. The edifice was finished fifteen years later by Cristoforo Solari, divided into two parts: one for the faithful, one for the nuns. Until 1794 the latter were strongly forbidden to cross the dividing wall.
The interior has a vaulted nave separated by the divisory wall (the nuns followed the mass from a grating) and flanked by groin-vaulted chapels, which are surmounted by a serliana loggia.
The most important artwork of the church is the cycle of frescoes from the 16th century covering the walls. The dividing wall has frescoes depicting the Life of San Maurizio by Bernardino Luini which flank an altarpiece with an Adoration of the Magi by Antonio Campi. The chapels in the faithful's area are by Aurelio Luini, son of Bernardino, and his brothers. The counterfaçade has a fresco by Simone Peterzano (1573). In the right side Bernardino Luini also frescoed the Chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria (1530). Frescoes are also influed by Forlivese school of art (Melozzo da Forlì and Marco Palmezzano).
Hall of nuns
The hall of the nuns is also completely painted. The partition wall, a work by Bernardino Luini always the thirties of the sixteenth century, presents images of Saint Catherine, Saint Agatha, the Marriage at Cana, the Carrying of the Cross of Christ on the Cross and Christ died.
On the vault of the hall of the nuns is depicted a starry sky, with God, the Evangelists, and angels. In the end there is the painting Ecce Homo.
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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.
Source : The Internet
Mosteiro Santa Maria da Vitória, more commonly known as the Batalha Monastery, is a Dominican monastery in the Portuguese town of Batalha, in the District of Leiria, Portugal. It is one of the best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal, intermingled with the Manueline style.
The Batalha Abbey was added in 1983 by the UNESCO to its list of World Heritage sites: whc.unesco.org/en/list/264
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