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Songzanlin Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery situated 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city of Zhongdian at elevation 3,380 metres (11,090 ft) in Yunnan province, China. Built in 1679, the monastery is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan province and is sometimes referred to as the Little Potala Palace.
Along the coast of the Black Sea, in the mountains south of Trabazon, Turkey, lies the 13th century Greek Orthodox Sumela monastery, perched on a steep cliff at 1200 M. It reopened to the public in 2019 after a netting was installed above it to protect the site from rockfalls. As I photographed it from below, some windblown clouds suddenly appeared, adding visual interest to the sky.
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The Monastery of Batalha literally the Monastery of the Battle, is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, in the district of Leiria, Portugal. Originally, and officially known, as the Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória 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.
Sapara Monastery is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Akhaltsikhe District of Samtskhe-Javakheti region, Georgia.
While visiting Mount Kōya, we stayed with monks in a monastery (Rengejo-in). Highlights included sleeping on the floor, cold vegetable meals, and sandals about 5 sizes too small. But overall it was an excellent experience.
Another view of Kye monastery with the village in the foreground.In this photo you can see that the monastery is not as isolated as it looks in my earlier photos of it.
The Kye Monastery ,situated on a hill top,at an altitude of about 13668 feet above sea level in the Spiti valley in Himachal Pradesh,India.It is located on the road from Kaza (the capital of Spiti) to Kibber,one of the highest inhabited villages in the world.It is the largest monastery in Spiti and one of the oldest (over a 1000 years old).It has been ravaged by wars,fire and earthquake over time and is now occupied by lamas of the Gelugpa Sect.
I will be going to Chandigarh on some work and will be off Flickr for some time my friends.See you all next week.
Rila Monastery was founded in the tenth century during the First Bulgarian Empire by followers of the hermit Saint Ivan of Rila. Little survives of its earliest period, but it's quite an enormous and impressive multistory walled complex, complete with central church, defensive tower, cells for hundreds of monks, and massive facilities to support the economic functions of the monastery, which included milling, forestry, agriculture, beekeeping, fish farming and supporting the pilgrim trade.
Over the centuries the monastery was alternately plundered and protected by the conquering Ottomans. In 1833 most of it was destroyed in an accidental fire, but it was rebuilt with Ottoman permission. Today it mixes Byzantine, Moorish, Ottoman, Baroque and medieval defensive architectural styles in a manner that is somehow coherent and recognizable as the synthesis called Bulgarian Revival.
It is still an active pilgrimage destination and monastery, albeit with a very small complement of monks. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and, of course, a popular tourist destination. Rila Monastery, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria.
Ilkley
In the distance in the centre of the photo is one of Ilkley’s most historic buildings, known locally as The Monastery. Myddleton Lodge is a Grade I Listed building north of the River Wharfe. It dates back to 1260 and was for many centuries home to the Middletons, one of the towns most famous families, they owned more or less all the land around here.
In 1922 it was purchased and used as a spiritual retreat, later it was sold to the Diocese of Leeds. Somehow in the 1990’s the building became neglected and run down. It was later restored and sold for around £2.5 million. It is now a luxury hotel, spa and wedding venue with rooms starting at £250 a night midweek in January.
I don’t know at what period in history the name changed from Middleton to Myddleton, but it seems the spelling with the Y is now in regular use going by the private fishing signs Myddleton Angling Club have put up along this stretch of the river.
The town of Ilkley, and the spot I’m standing on are in West Yorkshire, the address of the hotel is in North Yorkshire, so somewhere between where I’m standing and where I’m looking is the invisible line dividing two Yorkshire Ridings.
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1536 AD to 1541 AD, all over England, Wales and Ireland. Henry VIII disbands the monasteries, friaries and nunneries in England, maybe just to take their money...
Around 1536 AD there were nearly 900 religious houses in England. In these houses were lived about 12,000 people - 4,000 monks, 3,000 canons, 3,000 friars and 2,000 nuns. Over the country there was about one adult man in fifty who belonged to a religious orders.
The dissolution of the monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the most revolutionary events in English history. The monasteries were seen as being a cornerstone of Papal authority in England and Wales. Following the power struggle between Henry and Rome legislation was brought in that ended the Pope’s authority. Next the monasteries became the focal point of the king’s attack as it was assumed that they would remain loyal to the Pope. It is debatable as to the true reasons behind the attacks, was it for spiritual or financial reasons?
By 1540, over 800 monasteries had been dissolved. Orignially the policy was originally envisaged as increasing the regular income of the Crown, however in the end much of the former monastic property had been sold to help fund Henry's military campaigns in the 1540s.
You may recognise this MOC, it is in fact a rebuild of Slyowl's Dissolution of a monastery from 2009. Last year somebody mistook it for one of my builds so with Slyowl's agreement I thought I'd give it a go. I hope I've done him justice!
The monastery is located in Shangri-La, China, relatively close to the tibetian border. Originally I wanted to visit Tibet while travelling China but considering the time I had available and also the strings attached to the visa I decided to visit Yunnan province instead. While I liked that part of the country a lot, the many tibetian influences there fueled my desire even more to see Lhasa one day.
The Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila sits in a deep valley in the Rila Mountains about 117 km south of Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery, is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal
The Glozhene Monastery …
According to the legend, the monastery was built in the 13th century (1224), when Kievan Rus knyaz Georgi Glozh settled in the area with Ivan Asen II's approval. The knyaz founded a monastery carrying the name of St George, whose icon he had brought with himself. The icon then disappeared numerous times only to be found on a hill not far from the village of Glozhene, which was interpreted by the monks as a divine sign to move the monastery there. This was eventually done near the end of the 14th century. The two monasteries existed in parallel for a short time, being connected by a tunnel to each other, but the tunnel, used many times by Vasil Levski during his secret missions, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1928.
This is one of the most beautiful monasteries in Europe. The cathedral is marvelous, the cloister is stuning. It has such a nice atmosphere that we have visited it twice. One of the miracles is the unfinished chapel, without a rooftop with an amazing view to the sky. It is one of the best examples of late Gothic architecture in Portugal, also affected with the Manueline style.
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In the 8th century two brothers, David and Constantine, led a rebellion against occupying Arabs. This failed and they were captured, tortured and killed after refusing to convert to Islam. Tradition holds that their bodies were thrown into the Tskaltsitela River and that lions dragged their remains to a hill overlooking the river. Motsameta means "place of the martyrs" and King Bagrat IV (ruled 1027-1072) had the Motsameta Monastery built on the hill after they were recognized as Saints by the church. Relics of the brothers are kept at the monastery.
So to the 4th and final monastery for the day. In fact not a monastery at all anymore as it was converted to a nunnery in 1961. It’s the most accessible, but not what you’d call step free. It closes for a few hours after lunch unlike the others as well as one day a week. All that makes it the busiest with tour groups.
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.
The monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the Portuguese Late Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon. It was classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the nearby Tower of Belém, in 1983.
The construction of the monastery and church began on 6 January 1501, and was completed 100 years later.
former principality Moldova of Romania
A legend tells that prince Stephen the Great, in a moment of crisis during a war against the Ottoman Turks (1462 - 1483: Wallachian and Moldavian campaigns), came to Daniel the Hermit at his skete in Voronetz and asked for advice. After he won the battle against the Turks, keeping his promise to the monk, the Prince built a new church, dedicated to Saint George, the "bringer of victory in battle". The commemorative inscription placed above the original entrance of the Church of Saint George, now in the exonarthex, shows that the church was built in 1488 in less than four months.
Tvrdoš Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Тврдош) is a 15th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery near the city of Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 4th-century foundations of the first Roman church on the site are still visible.
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.
According to the legend, Margrave Leopold III founded Klosterneuburg Monastery at the place where he found the veil of his wife Agnes, which had been seized by a gust of wind on the day of their wedding.
In the early 12th century, the Babenberg Margrave Leopold had his residence built near the present location of the monastery church at Klosterneuburg. The foundation stone was laid on 12 June 1114. In 1133 the Order of the Augustinian Canons settled at Klosterneuburg upon Leopold’s initiative. Since that time (with the exception of the years between 1941 and 1945, when the canonry was suppressed by the Nazis), the canons have lived and worked there and in the parishes in their care, following the Rule of Saint Augustine.
In an eventful history spanning nine centuries, Klosterneuburg Monastery has developed into a religious, pastoral, scientific, cultural and economic centre of a distinction that shines into the world far beyond the monastery walls. Today, almost 50 canons who are members of the Canonry, and the great number of staff in the parishes and the monastic businesses want to take this great legacy into the future together.
It was founded in 1447. The monastery was sacked in 1791, when the Gorkha Kingdom invaded Tibet and captured Shigatse. A combined Tibetan and Chinese army drove them back as far as the outskirts of Kathmandu, when they were forced to agree to keep the peace in the future, pay tribute every five years, and return what they had looted.
Although two-thirds of the buildings were destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, they were mainly the residences for the 4,000 monks. In 1966 the Red Guards led a crowd to break statues, burn scriptures, and open the stupas containing the relics of the 5th to 9th Panchen Lamas, and throw them in the river. Some of those remains were saved by locals, and in 1985, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, began the construction of a new stupa to house them and honour his predecessors. It was finally consecrated on 22 January 1989.