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Great Meteoron Monastery at dusk, Meteora, Thessaly, Greece.
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the ruins of Pirita Monastery again, most of the time the gate is closed
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St. Cyril's Monastery, used to be the largest monastery and the strongest fortress in Northern Russia.
The monastery was consecrated to the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, for which cause it was sometimes referred to as the Dormition Monastery of St. Cyril.
@Wikipedia
The Stavronikita Monastery is 15th in class monasteries of Mount Athos. It is Greek, communal since 1968 and celebrated on December 6 St. Nicholas. It holds the miraculous icon of St. Nicholas of oysters. It called so, because when they took it out of the sea that had remained unchanged for hundrend years, in front of Saitn it was stuck an oyster that when pulled ran blood. It is the smallest monastery of Mount Athos, in the castle form a rudimentary court. The arbor is near the entrance of the monastery compensates the visitor. Situated on a rock, but who some years ago began to disintegrate. Thanks to the interventions K.E.D.A.K., this rock was reinforced with cement injections and thus stabilized. The aqueduct is located outside the monastery with arches, it is very remarkable architecturally.
The Bachkovo Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Bulgarian: Бачковски манастир "Успение Богородично", Bachkovski manastir, Georgian: პეტრიწონის მონასტერი, Petritsonis Monasteri), archaically the Petritsoni Monastery or Monastery of the Mother of God Petritzonitissa is a major Eastern Orthodox monastery in Southern Bulgaria. It is located on the right bank of the Chepelare River, 189 km from Sofia and 10 km south of Asenovgrad, and is directly subordinate to the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. The monastery is known and appreciated for the unique combination of Byzantine, Georgian and Bulgarian culture, united by the common faith.
The Saint Ignatios Monastery is found outside the city of Kalloni on the island of Lesbos, Greece, and is also known as the Limonas Monastery or the Limonos Monastery (alternative spelling), due to the field on which it is built. The monastery was founded in 1526 by Saint Ignatios Agallianos.
The monastery contains many important relics collected since its founding, and houses a library which contains many manuscripts and icons. It now has over 2,500 volumes of books and 450 manuscripts and Greek and Ottoman documents.
During the Cretan revolt in 1866, 943 Greeks, mostly women and children, sought refuge in the monastery. After three days of battle and under orders from the hegumen (abbot) of the monastery, the Cretans blew up barrels of gunpowder, choosing to sacrifice themselves rather than surrender.
The monastery became a national sanctuary in honor of the Cretan resistance. The explosion did not end the Cretan insurrection, but it attracted the attention of the rest of the world.
This is how Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian general and politician and one of the founders of modern Italy described the siege in his letters..
"One knows this word, Arkadian, but one hardly understands what it means. And here are some of the precise details that have been neglected. In Arkadia, the monastery on Mount Ida, founded by Heraclius, six thousand Turks attacked one hundred ninety-seven men and three hundred forty-three women and also children. The Turks had twenty-six cannons and two howitzers, the Greeks had two hundred forty rifles. The battle lasted two days and two nights; the convent had twelve hundred holes found in it from cannon fire; one wall crumbled, the Turks entered, the Greeks continued the fight, one hundred fifty rifles were down and out and yet the struggle continued for another six hours in the cells and the stairways, and at the end there were two thousand corpses in the courtyard. Finally the last resistance was broken through; the masses of the Turks took the convent. There only remained one barricaded room that held the powder and, in this room, next to the altar, at the center of a group of children and mothers, a man of eighty years, a priest, the hegumen Gabriel, in prayer...the door, battered by axes, gave and fell. The old man put a candle on the altar, took a look at the children and the women and lit the powder and spared them. A terrible intervention, the explosion, rescued the defeated...and this heroic monastery, that had been defended like a fortress, ended like a volcano."
This is the room how it survived after that explosion.
@Meteora Greece.
This is the Rousanou monastery, one of six still functioning monasteries.
One of the coolest places I've ever visited, really worth it.
Also managed to capture it during a bit of rain... I just can't seem to stop thinking about how this would look with a little bit of fog... maybe next time :)
courtyard of monastery. The former man's monastery on left to river bank Jauzy. It is based in 1357 by metropolitan Alex, the first abbot — Andronik, pupil Sergija Radonezhsky is named by name. The monastery has been closed in 1918, in its territory one of the first concentration camps for officers and political opponents of the new power settled down till 1922. In 1922-1928 in a monastery the colony for homeless children settled down. In 1928 the territory has been transferred working collective of factory «the Sickle and the Hammer». In 1989 the Spassky cathedral was divine services are consecrated, renewed.
The monastery of Sevanavank was founded in 874 by Princess Mariam, the daughter of Armenian King Ashot I.
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St. John Detis church and monastery, Paros Greece
Explore March 10, 2009 Highest position # 197
The monastery in Ter Apel is from the middle age and one of the view intact of that period in Northwest Europe. It is a typical country side monastery. Now it’s a museum and worth to visit.
Santes Creus Monastery came into being in 1160 under the patronage of the Montcada and Cervelló houses and Count Ramon Berenguer IV. On the banks of the River Gaià the monks, who came from the Occitan Abbaye de Grandselve, found the ideal site for building a monastery which, until 1835, would be the centre of one of the largest and most influential monastic domains of the Kingdom of Aragón. Its history and the Cistercian way of life are described in the audiovisual "The Cistercian World".
Santes Creus reached its time of greatest splendour in the 13th and 14th centuries thanks to the favour of the royal house and the nobility. Two kings, Pere el Gran and Jaume II el Just, and Jaume's queen Blanche d'Anjou chose it for their pantheon and were active protectors and patrons. Their remains lie in the church in two tombs, considered masterpieces of early Catalan Gothic and the only ones of the Kingdom of Aragón to have survived intact.
Like few Cistercian abbeys, the ground plan of the monastery follows the model drawn by St Bernard in order to organise the spaces according to the needs of the community. The austerity typical of the order is reflected in the first buildings, such as the church. But soon the splendour of the Gothic took over in spaces such as the 14th century cloister, the first in that style in the Kingdom of Aragón, remarkable for the artistic quality of the capitals and the tombs of the monarchs who took part in the conquest of Mallorca. (Source: Generalitat de Catalunya)
The Putna monastery (Romanian: Mănăstirea Putna) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery, one of the most important cultural, religious and artistic centers established in medieval Moldavia; as with many others, it was built and dedicated by Prince Stephen the Great.
Right after Stephen the Great won the battle in which he conquered the Kilia citadel, he began work on the monastery as a means to give thanks to God, on July 10, 1466 - the church was to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
The amazing site of the Tengboche Monastery nestled in the mountains at 3,867 metres (12,687 ft) presents itself like a timewarp from a different age. The Tengboche Monastery (Thyangboche Monastery) also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, sits in the area of Khumjung which is part of in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal. The monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nepalese Sherpa community and the ancient scriptures of Tibet refer to this valley along with Rowlang and Khanbalung valleys as sacred places. Tenzing Norgay, who was a local inhabitant of Tengboche village, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary on the British 1953 expedition. You can see the trial from Phortse running across the mountains on the other side of the valley. Shot with Fuji Velvia slide film. Nepalese Himalayas, Nepal.
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The Vlacherna monastery viewed from above this time, another LE
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Georgia, 2013.
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Alaverdi Monastery (Georgian: ალავერდის მონასტერი) is a Georgian Eastern Orthodox monastery located 25 km from Akhmeta, in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia. While parts of the monastery date back to 6th century, the present day cathedral was built in the 11th century by Kvirike III of Kakheti, replacing an older church of St. George.
The monastery was founded by the Assyrian monk Joseph (Yoseb, Amba) Alaverdeli, who came from Antioch and settled in Alaverdi, then a small village and former pagan religious center dedicated to the Moon. At a height of over 55 meters, Alaverdi Cathedral is the second tallest religious building in Georgia, after Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, which was consecrated in 2004. Its overall size is also smaller than the cathedral of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta. The monastery is the focus of the annual religious celebration Alaverdoba. Situated in the heart of the world's oldest wine region, the monks also make their own wine, known as Alaverdi Monastery Cellar. [source: wikipedia.com]
Kilmacduagh Monastery is a ruined abbey near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It was the birthplace of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh. It was reportedly founded by Saint Colman, son of Duagh in the 7th century, on land given him by his cousin King Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin of Connacht. (Wikipedia)
The Alcobacu Monastery, Leira, Portugal. The tomb of King Pedro (ruled 1357 - 1367) and his mistress, Ines de Castro, are in the Transept of the Church.