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Holy Trinity Monastery or Agia Triada was founded by in the 15th century and was the monastery used for the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. It is decorated with wall paintings from the 18th century by the brothers Antonios and Nikolaos. To get to the monastery you walk up 140 steps cut into the rock, past the church of Saint John the Baptis with its wall paintings from 1682.
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In 1817, a wooden church was built at the monastery. It had a wooden iconostasis decorated with flowers gilded with gold. The walls inside of the church were fashioned with many beautiful icons, eight of which were painted on planks of wood and gilded with gold. Hancu was the first monastic settlement of Bessarabia, where community life was introduced in approximately 1820-1822.
Both the inner life of the convent and its community household developed significantly during the supervision of the Bulgarian Abbot Dosoftei. Where the old wooden church stood, he built a new stone church honoring Saint Pious Parascheva. In 1841, he built another church dedicated to the Holy Virgin Dormition. Cells for the monks were also constructed. Water was brought into the monastery, and the administration of the monastery was improved. At the end of the 19th century, the monastery was known under the name of Hancul-Parascheva.
The monastery was probably founded in the Middle Ages, during the occupation of Crete by the Republic of Venice, its founder being a feudal lord named Prevelis. (via)
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This small monastery was built by the family Schollaert. It was inherited by the Sisters in 1916 and used to house the less fortunate people of the community.
In 2007 the Sisters left and it never got a new destination.
A rather empty monastery unfortunately. Visited this location in December 2011.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the monasteries of Meteora have been on my bucket list for years, and we made it!
A long 3 hours drive from Thessaloniki brought us to this magical place with several ancient monasteries perched precipitously on rock columns.
The Monastery of the Cross (Georgian: ჯვრის მონასტერი) is an Orthodox monastery near the Nayot neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. It is located in the Valley of the Cross, below the Israel Museum and the Knesset.
The monastery was built in the 11th century, during the reign of King Bagrat IV by the Georgian Giorgi-Prokhore of Shavsheti. It is believed that the site was originally consecrated in the 4th century under the instruction of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, who later gave the site to the Georgian King Mirian III of Iberia after the conversion of his country to Christianity in 327 A.D.
By the 14th century, the monastery had become the center of the Georgian community in Jerusalem. By 1685, however, the monastery had been taken over by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate.
Haghpat Monastery, also known as Haghpatavank, is a medieval Armenian monastery complex in Haghpat, Armenia.
built between the 10th and 13th century.
This is the belltower, added in 1245.
Haghpat Monastery was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1996,
Rila Monastery stands on the slopes of the Rila Mountains in western Bulgaria. It is traditionally thought to have been founded by the hermit St. Ivan Rilski in the 10th century.
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This is a closer view of the church at the Dryanovo Monastery. The bat logo of a climbing club is painted on the cliff behind the church. Now they need an annonymous climbing club to remove it.
The rooftops of Songzanlin Monastery, a pond, hills, and distant Zhongdian seen from the monastery's highest level
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Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling (Tibetan: དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།, Wylie: dge ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis gyas su 'khyil ba'i gling).
Labrang is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is about four hours by car from the provincial capital Lanzhou.
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 Daxia River, a tributary of the Yellow River.
The monastery was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhépa, Ngawang Tsöndrü.It is Tibetan Buddhism's most important monastery town outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Labrang Monastery is situated at the strategic intersection of two major Asian cultures—Tibetan and Mongolian — and was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early 20th century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.[5]
In April 1985 the Assembly Hall burned down. It was replaced and the new building was consecrated in 1990
The monastery complex dominates the western part of the village. The white walls and gilded roofs feature a blend of Tibetan and Indian Vihara architectural styles. The monastery contains 18 halls, six institutes of learning, a gilded stupa, a sutra debate area, and houses nearly 60,000 sutras.
At its height the monastery housed 4,000 monks. Like so many religious institutions, it suffered during the Cultural Revolution; and the monks were sent to their villages to work. After it was reopened in 1980, many of the monks returned; but the government restricted enrolment to around 1,500.[7]
It has a Buddhist museum with a large collection of Buddha statues, sutras and murals. In addition, a large amount of Tibetan language books, including books on history is available for purchase, together with medicines, calendars, music and art objects.
There used to be a great gold-painted statue of the Buddha, more than 50 feet high, which was surrounded by rows of surrounding Buddhas in niches.[8]
The monastery today is an important place for Buddhist ceremonies and activities. From January 4 to 17 and June 26, to July 15, (these dates may change according to the lunar calendar), the great Buddhist ceremony will be held with Buddha-unfolding, sutra enchanting, praying, sutra debates, etc.
Santa Catalina Monastery was begun in 1579/1580, forty years after the city was founded. The monastery was enlarged over the centuries until it became a city within the city, about 20000 sq./m. and covering a good sized city block. At one time, 450 nuns and their lay servants resided within the community, closed off from the city by high walls.
In 1970, when the civic authorities insisted the monastery install electricity and running water, the now poor community of nuns elected to open the greater portion of the monastery to the public in order to pay for the work. The few remaining nuns retreated to a corner of their community and the remainder became one of Arequipa’s prime tourist attractions.
Built with sillar, the white volcanic rock that gives Arequipa the name of the White City, and ashlar, petrified volcanic ash from Volcan Chachani overlooking the city, the monastery was closed off to the city, but much of it is open to the intensely blue sky over the southern Peruvian desert.
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Abbeyderg Augustinian Monastery is in a wet low lying pasture, and to the East end of graveyard. Founded shortly before 1199 by Gormghall Ó Cuinn. Dedicated to St Peter, in 1540 it was one of five Monasteries in the Annaly region, that was surrendered to Henry VII. Granted to Shane O'Ferald in 1551 and in 1567 to Thomas Byram.
Named Derge Abbey on an early 17th century map of Moydow barony, where a possible crossing tower or castellated transept chapel is shown rising above the roofline. The Down Survey map of Taghsheenod parish records the lands of Abby Derry as Colledge Land in possession of Sr James Ware. Described in the late 17th century as the ruins of a Priory of the Cannons of St. Augustines order called Derg or Monasterderg.
Remains comprise a nave and chancel church constructed of rubble masonry with cut and dressed alternating quoins. There appears to have been a small square shaped tower at the West end. It is not clear if it is contemporary with the priory or whether it was added in the late medieval period. The East end of the church is best preserved the East gable and East ends of the North walls of the chancel survive to full height, elsewhere the walls are defined by low wall footings. Three single light pointed lancet windows in the East gable and two similar windows in the S wall are the only surviving architectural features. They are made of sandstone and are set in widely splayed round arched embrasures. They date from the 13th century.
The windows and the external faces of the walls were reconstructed and repointed with concrete during the course of a graveyard clean up scheme. To the North of the chancel low walls of a small, rectangular structure, probably a transept, are located at the possible crossing point between the nave and chancel of the church. The cloister is to the South. The East range is subdivided into three small rooms that have been reused as private burial plots. A low semicircular platform immediately to the East of the graveyard may be associated with the priory or it may relate to post medieval field drainage. Outside the North East corner of the graveyard grass covered walls of a possible building.