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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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardzia
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
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.
Tanahati (Tanadeh) Monastery was mentioned as early as the 8th century and was one of medieval Armenia's most important religious and cultural centers.
Its main church, Surb Stepanos (St. Stephen), was built between the years 1273 to 1279 under the patronage of the Proshian family. The church has a cruciform interior with annexes in its four corners; those flanking the main altar on the east are two-story. The exterior is rectangular with a slender 12-facet drum and a dome with a tent-roof spire. The Proshian emblem, an eagle clutching a lamb in its talons, is carved on the southern wall of the church.
The single nave 13th century Surb N'shan (Holy Sign) Church adjoining the monument from the north has a highly expressive bas-relief carving on the lintel over its entry, depicting a remarkable hunt scene. In 1970 excavators found a single nave church with two annexes southwest of the Monastery, a number of secular buildings and numerous tombstones, dating back to the 13th–14th centuries. Also found was a gavit (enclosed area) with a square plan, to the west of the church.
Some scholars believe that the Monastery housed Gladzor University (founded in 1282), the most prominent educational institution of its day in Medieval Armenia, where Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Theology, Geometry, Astronomy, Chronology, Miniature Painting and other subjects were taught. Others insist that Gladzor University's location is still unknown (sources make a reference to Aghberts monastery).
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This Tanahati monastery is a delight - lost in the mountains, outside major roads, and with just a few daily visitors. Place of serenity and solitude.
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.
(Wikipedia)
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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.
The Monastery of the Archangel Michael Panormitis is a Greek Orthodox monastery built on the southwest coast od Symi island in the early 18th century. It overlooks a bay and it is still inhabited by monks.
Transfiguration Monastery / Преображенски манастир - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / Велико Търново - Samovodene - България / Bulgaria
Voronet, one of most famous painted monasteries in Bucovina, Romania - founded in 1487 by Stephen the Great to celebrate a victory over the Turks. Widely known throughout Europe as "the Sistine Chapel of the East" due to its interior and exterior wall paintings.
Rizong Monastery by Irene Becker © All rights reserved
Rizong Monastery or Rizong Gonpa, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Ladakh : Day 10
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The Songzanlin Monastery was built between 1681 and 1697 as a copy of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. It is one of the biggest Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in the Yunan province.
Urbex Session : Abandoned Monastery
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Haghartsin is a 13th century monastery located near the town of Dilijan Armenia. We took a few extra days on our 2011 trip to Armenia to visit some of the sights to see in Armenia.
The road up to this place was great. It was all overgrown and along side the road you'd see all kinds of carved stones burried in the bushes.
I thought I had already posted this to flickr! So I've just been dipping into the old archives.
A mother enters the Drepung Monastery carring her sleeping child on her back in a makeshift sling.
Photos inside are forbidden.
Kvatakhevi Monastery is located in Shida Kartli region, Kaspi municipality. The monument belongs to XII-XIII centuries. It was considered to be the main monastery of Kartli and was protected by Georgian aristocrats. During Temur Lang's invasion in 1386, the monastery was raided. When the nuns sheltered in the church and the villagers refused to convert from Christianity, they were locked together in the monastery and set fire to the church. In the XV century, King Alexander the Great rebuilt the Kvatakhevi Monastery. In 1735-1740 the monastery was closed, and the relics that were kept in the monastery, were hidden in a cave close to the monastery. At the end of the XVIII century, the church was reopened and the hidden treasure was returned to the monastery. According to legend, a small part of the Virgin Mary's clothes is buried in the foundation of the church (the monastery itself has got a name of Virgin Mary). Also the greatest holy thing in the monastery is the holy part of John the Baptist. Kvatakhevi was also one of the centers of ancient Georgian literature, and several manuscripts of the monastery’s library have survived till today.
There is a sculpture garden in this former monastery. To visit it even when the grounds are muddy, some rubber boots are supplied.
Perched atop towering sandstone pillars, the monasteries of Meteora have watched over the Thessalian plain for centuries and remain one of Greece's most extraordinary cultural landscapes.
The Gangteng Monastery (Dzongkha: སྒང་སྟེང་དགོན་པ ), generally known as Gangtey Gonpa or Gangtey Monastery,[1] is an important monastery of Nyingmapa school of Buddhism, the main seat of the Pema Lingpa tradition.
Located in the Wangdue Phodrang District in central Bhutan. The Monastery, also known by the Gangten village that surrounds it, is in the Phobjikha Valley where winter visitors – the black-necked cranes – visit central Bhutan to roost, circling the monastery three times on arrival and repeating this circling when returning to Tibet..The Monastery's history traces to the early 17th century and back to the prophecies made by the well-known Terton (treasure finder) Pema Lingpa in the late 15th century.
The Gangteng Monastery, also spelt Gantey Gonpa, bounded on the west side by the Black Mountains (Bhutan) (range above 5,000 metres (16,000 ft) elevation) is located on a spur amidst the Gantey village, overlooking the vast U-shaped glacial Phobjikha Valley, which is at an elevation of about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and which has marshy land. The Nake Chuu river runs through this valley. The monastery commands striking views of the Phubjika Valley below. The Black Mountain Region is inhabited by nomadic shepherds and yak-herders.
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One of the earliest Christian archaeological monastery remains dating from the 6th/7th century founded by St Finian the Leper. Over time "the annals of Innisfallen” were written here by some 39 monks detailing the early history of Ireland written in a combination of Irish and Latin. The Annals are considered of major importance by historians and can be found today in the Bodleian library in Oxford. Taken from a boat on Lough Leane - can you spot the deer? Press L for Large (zoom).
Near Akhaltsikhe.
It has existed from at least the 9th century, and has numbered among its monks many important figures in Georgian ecclesiastical history. At the end of the 13th century Sapara became a possession of the Jakeli family, whose leader, Sargis Jakeli, was adept at staying on good terms with the Mongols, which enabled Samtskhe to enjoy a peace unusual for the time. When he grew old, Sargis took monastic orders and changed his name to Saba. His son Beka built the largest of the 12 churches here, St Saba's Church, named after the saint whose name his father had adopted, one of the most architecturally important churches of its time. The 14th-century frescoes inside are of high quality.[1]
From the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the 17th century the Sapara Monastery became empty due to the expansion of Turkish policy into Samtskhe and during this process the monastery's icons and other treasures were taken to more protected areas of Georgia.
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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Snagov Monastery
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Biserica "Intrarea Maicii Domnului în Biserică"
"The Presentation" Church [Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple]
construction from 1517, iconography from1563, other interventions 1815, 1904, 1941, 1953, 1966...
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