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Bachkovo Monastery
The āAssumptionā monastery is the second largest monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the western part of Rodope Mountain, 10 km away from Asenovgrad. It was founded by Grigoriy Bukuriani ā Georgian military commander who was at the service of the Byzantine Emperor. After the Ottomans conquered Bulgaria at the end of 14 century, the heroic patriarch St. Evtimiy Tarnovski was sent into exile in the monastery where he stayed until the end of his life. At first the monastery survived ottoman attacks but later it was burned down and plundered. During the 15th century it was renovated. The main monastery church was built in 1604. The wall paintings in the refectory date back from 1643. There are stages of āthe Doomsdayā, figures of holy monks, stages from the Orthodox Church history, and many other mural paintings. The icon of Virgin Mary is said to be miraculous. 103 manuscripts and 252 old printed books were found in the monastery in the beginning of 20 century and were called āa real literature depositoryā.
(Extracted from the website, www.visitbulgaria.net/en/bachkovo_monastery).
Built in the third century BC The Monastery is believed to have been built as a Nabatean tomb for King Obadas. The structure now stands high above the World Heritage Listed ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan.
As mentioned in my last image, this is the second scene i took while my fast walk through monastery Comburg. My tripod was set up and the lights at the right side were off. 1 second before i released my cable trigger the lights went on. What a luck ! :-) The color temperature was very greenish but a frew moments later it was equal warm as the light on the left side. ThatĀ“s better than to correct this later ! :-)
Tabo Monastery (Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery) is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India. A dry high altitude desert region, the monastery is found at 3,050m above sea level. It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan year of the Fire Ape. The interior consists of buddhist thankas, frescoes and statues and is one of the oldest continuously functioning buddhist monasteries within India and the Himalayas.
Two Cats at Transfiguration Monastery / ŠŃŠµŠ¾Š±ŃŠ°Š¶ŠµŠ½ŃŠŗŠø Š¼Š°Š½Š°ŃŃŠøŃ - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / ŠŠµŠ»ŠøŠŗŠ¾ Š¢ŃŃŠ½Š¾Š²Š¾ - Samovodene - ŠŃŠ»Š³Š°ŃŠøŃ / Bulgaria
Labrang Monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside of Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is located about 4 hours from the city of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu.
In the early part of the 20th century, Labrang was by far the largest and most influential monastery in Amdo. It is located on the Sangchu or Xiahe River a tributary of the Huang He or Yellow River.[2]
Labrang Monastery is located in the town of Xiahe, which belongs to the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Built in the rockface
Petra was built by the Nabataean Arabs around the 6th century BC.
The monastery was built high in the mountains and people can go there walking or they can ride on a donkey.
Petra, Jordan
The Augustinian monastery "Stift Vorau" lies in northeast Styria (Austria), in municipality Vorau. The cloister goes back to a foundation of margrave Ottokar III von Traungau in 1163
The kitchen, built in the XVIII, is a space marked by the great baroque chimney, lined with tiles. The imposing chimney rests on eight columns of cast iron. The tank is fed underground by the levada of an arm of the Alcoa River
The Savina Monastery (Serbian: ŠŠ°Š½Š°ŃŃŠøŃ Š”Š°Š²ŠøŠ½Š°, romanized: Manastir Savina; lit. "Sava's monastery") is a Serbian Orthodox monastery of three churches near the city Herceg Novi in the Bay of Kotor, located in thick Mediterranean vegetation in one of the most beautiful parts of the Montenegrin Littoral.
Tengboche Monastery, also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community. Situated at 3,867 metres, the monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
Kecharis Monastery (ŌæÕ„Õ¹Õ”Õ¼Õ«Õ½Õ« Õ¾Õ”Õ¶ÖÕ”ÕµÕ«Õ¶ Õ°Õ”Õ“Õ”Õ¬Õ«Ö), is a medieval Armenian monastic complex dating back to the 11th to 13th centuries. It is located 60 km from Yerevan, in the ski resort town of Tsaghkadzor. The main temple of the complex is the church of Saint Grigor.
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La bĆ³veda de la Iglesia del Monasterio de los JerĆ³nimos de Santa MarĆa de BelĆ©m ( o Mosteiro dos JerĆ³nimos - en portuguĆ©s), obra del siglo XVI, que se halla en Lisboa, la capital de la regĆon y distrito del mismo nombre, la capital de la subregiĆ³n de Gran Lisboa, la capital de Portugal.
See where the photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc/.
Zedazeni Monastery - one of the oldest monastery complexes, a monument of architecture, northeast of Mtskheta, on the forest-covered Saguramo ridge, at 1170 meters above sea level.
According to historical records, a fortress (not preserved) was built on Zedazeni at the beginning of the II century (in 109). In the middle of the VI century, a group of Georgian ecclesiastical figures (so-called Assyrian fathers) who returned to their homeland from Syria, the commander John chose a "mountain, near the east of Mtskheta and north of Svetitskhoveli, and he climbed a high mountain called Zeda (Upper) Zaden". Here "he found a small cave, build a church and settled there". After that he was named John Zedazneli. From here, John sent his disciples to work in different parts of Kartli and Kakheti, and he stayed with one of the disciples on Zedazeni. John died in 573. His disciples and associates first buried John's body in the monastery of Tata, but soon, according to the saint's will, "they took him to the place with great reverence, and buried John here, and later a church was built for him." John was buried in a chapel specially built for him. In the third quarter of the VIII century, the Catholicos Clementos built a three-nave basilica here and incorporated John's chapel into it as part of the north nave of the basilica. Then the monastery was built and improved.
The doorway of the Buddhist monastery at Muktinath. In charge is a single Buddhist nun who lives here all on her own throughout the year (including the harsh winters).
Muktinath, Lower Mustang, Nepal.
One of the three large islands that John and I contributed to the Isles of Aura display at Brickworld. Iāve been wanting to build a monastery for a while, and this was a great opportunity to do so and to use dark orange 1Ć1 round bricks that we had gotten from LUGbulk last year. I also used plenty of tan 1Ć1 quarter circle tiles in the courtyard.
Olureon Monastery is well known for its beautiful terra-cotta roofs and carefully kept gardens. Both the Vermillion and Cerulean kingdoms respect the monasteryās non-violent approach to life, making it a safe haven even in times of strife.
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b>Location: Saint Paul Monastery, Red Sea Governorate, approx. 250km Southern east of Egypt
About: It's considered as one of the old gates in the Monastery for the monks cells in the past. Nowadays their numbers are increasing and there are some new cells are being constructed in some other zones in the monastery built by stones (Vernacular architecture).
You can see more about the monastery on touregypt
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The Transfiguration Monastery (Bulgarian: ŠŃŠµŠ¾Š±ŃŠ°Š¶ŠµŠ½ŃŠŗŠø Š¼Š°Š½Š°ŃŃŠøŃ, Preobrazhenski manastir) or the Monastery of the Holy Transfiguration of God (Š¼Š°Š½Š°ŃŃŠøŃ "Š”Š²ŠµŃŠ¾ ŠŃŠµŠ¾Š±ŃŠ°Š¶ŠµŠ½ŠøŠµ ŠŠ¾ŃŠæŠ¾Š“Š½Šµ", manastir "Sveto Preobrazhenie Gospodne") is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in the Dervent gorge of the Yantra River. It lies near the village of Samovodene, seven kilometres north of Veliko Tarnovo, in central northern Bulgaria. It is one of the five stauropegic monasteries of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
It is thought that the monastery was founded in the 11th century AD as a cloister of the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos. In 1360, when Tarnovo was the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the traditions of hesychasm were popular in Bulgaria, it became an autonomous monastery on the order of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria. This is legendarily tied to the charity of Ivan Alexander's second wife Sarah-Theodora and their son Ivan Shishman, a reason to also call the monastery Sarah's or Shishman's monastery
The Monastery of Batalha, officially known as the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory, was built to thank the Virgin Mary for the Portuguese victory over the Castilians in the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385, fulfilling a promise of King John I of Portugal
Gremi is a 16th-century architectural monument ā the royal citadel and the Church of the Archangels.
Gremi was the capital of the Kingdom of Kakheti in the 16th and 17th centuries. It functioned as a lively trading town on the Silk Road and royal residence until being razed to the ground by the armies of Shah Abbas I of Persia in 1615. The town never regained its past prosperity.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremi
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Renovation works had already started here, we knew that much. So we picked a sunday morning to visit.
It's around 7.15 and the main gate is wide open. This can't be good, but let's see what happening here.
There are workers present, we hear them work and talk, but they don't know we're there. We sneak all the way to the other side of the building and find our way through to the church.
The workers are busy right below the church, but we're in. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the sun to come up and taking the pictures we want before one of the workers walks in on us.
Although this visit was a bit noisy, they never knew we where in here.
Thanks a77ard for joining me on this one!
Transfiguration Monastery / ŠŃŠµŠ¾Š±ŃŠ°Š¶ŠµŠ½ŃŠŗŠø Š¼Š°Š½Š°ŃŃŠøŃ - 7km north from Veliko Tarnovo / ŠŠµŠ»ŠøŠŗŠ¾ Š¢ŃŃŠ½Š¾Š²Š¾ - Samovodene - ŠŃŠ»Š³Š°ŃŠøŃ / Bulgaria
Polovragi Monastery is a convent for nuns. The monastery lies in the vicinity of the Oltet Gorge, Gorj County, Romania.
Moldova - Hancu monastery.
Hancu Monastery was raised up on a nunsā 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 monasteryās territory. Nuns and sisters started living there after a major overhaul. The number of the ones living there estimates 58 in 1995.
Monasteries of Meteora are built on natural conglomerate pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece
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.
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