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The monastery of Agia Triada of Tzagarolon is one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Crete. It is built near the airport of Chania, in the position Tzobomylos of the Cape Melecha and at the foothills of Stavros Mount. The distance from Chania is only 15km.
The monastery was built by the Venetian nobles Jeremiah and Lawrence Tzagarolo. Jeremiah was a famous scholar of his era with rich education and was a friend of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Meletios Pigas. Jeremiah himself was a candidate for Patriarch of Constantinople. Moreover, Jeremiah designed and built the monastery complex of the monastery, being affected by the architect Sebastiano Serlio from Verona, Italy.
Home to over 300 monks, this monastery is elevated at 4150m above sea level and sits on the slopes of the Drigung Valley that requires a 15mins drive up from the valley floor.
It was built and rebuilt two times. This monastery you see here is the culmination of reconstruction efforts since the 2nd one began in 1983.
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Drigung Til Monastery, Tibet
Begun 1416 in Lhasa; largest monastery in Tibet. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
The monastery of Agia Triada of Tzagarolon is one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Crete. It is built near the airport of Chania, in the position Tzobomylos of the Cape Melecha and at the foothills of Stavros Mount. The distance from Chania is only 15km.
The monastery was built by the Venetian nobles Jeremiah and Lawrence Tzagarolo. Jeremiah was a famous scholar of his era with rich education and was a friend of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Meletios Pigas. Jeremiah himself was a candidate for Patriarch of Constantinople. Moreover, Jeremiah designed and built the monastery complex of the monastery, being affected by the architect Sebastiano Serlio from Verona, Italy.
The monastery of Agia Triada of Tzagarolon is one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Crete. It is built near the airport of Chania, in the position Tzobomylos of the Cape Melecha and at the foothills of Stavros Mount. The distance from Chania is only 15km.
The monastery was built by the Venetian nobles Jeremiah and Lawrence Tzagarolo. Jeremiah was a famous scholar of his era with rich education and was a friend of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Meletios Pigas. Jeremiah himself was a candidate for Patriarch of Constantinople. Moreover, Jeremiah designed and built the monastery complex of the monastery, being affected by the architect Sebastiano Serlio from Verona, Italy.
Gelati Monastery, built between the 12th and 17th centuries, it was an important religious, cultural and educational center of Georgia. Imereti Region, Georgia.
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Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Temptation. We have never visited this ancient and famous monastery although we believe others have!!! Dates back to the 12th century and is accessibly by cable-car. Said to be built near the site where the Devil tried to tempt Jesus away from his 40-day fast in the desert. Situated near Jericho.
The library in the monastery of this medieval murder mystery (The Name of the Rose) was inspired by Yale University’s labyrinthine Sterling Memorial Library and the University of Toronto’s fortress-like Robarts Library, which he loved.
Robarts Library enchanted Eco. It’s worth taking a look at his 1981 paper De Biblioteca presented on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Milan’s public library system. He outlines the attributes of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library and Robarts Library. He says they are “Two libraries I love and whenever I can, I visit them.”
Eco had an apartment in New York where his son worked at Rizzoli Publications so he would often take the side trip to Toronto, a city he really enjoyed [...] “He liked the university and the amount of green space in Toronto.”
“Eco considered Toronto a very civil city,” professor Capozzi explains. In fact, Toronto was on Eco’s top three places to live. He remembers a Faculty Club dinner in 1997, “Eco announced that after New York and Paris, Toronto is the only other city he would move to, to live and work”.
L'écrivain passait plusieurs heures à la bibliothèque Robarts à chacune de ses visites. Il en louait la fonctionnalité et l'accès facile à sa collection. Selon lui, il s'agit d'un chef-d'oeuvre d'architecture contemporaine.
Eco was impressed by Robarts’ easy access to books and its user-friendly attitude. He loved its interior, its escalators and study spaces; its stairways, shelves and cataloguing system.
livingtorontojournal.com/2016/03/09/umberto-eco-and-toronto/
This is the holiest place in Bulgaria. The monastery was founded by the hermit St. Ivan of Rila in 9th century AD.
Monastery is an Orthodox Christian monastery for women of the Church of Romania. It is the largest & also the last built of the painted monasteries of Bucovina. It was built in 1581 by the Bishop of Rădăuţi, Gheorghe Movila. Frescoes are the work of 2 master painters, Ioan and his brother Sofronie from Suceava.
Phuktal Monastery or Phuktal Gompa (often transliterated as Phugtal) is a Buddhist monastery located in the remote Lungnak Valley in south-eastern Zanskar, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in Northern India. It is one of the only Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh that can still be reached only by foot. Supplies to the monastery are brought on horses, donkeys, and mules in the warmer months, and in the frozen winters, they are transported through the frozen Zanskar River. A road is expected to be built up to the monastery, however, for now, it is a day's walk from Village Cha or Village Khangsaar, the end of the road leading from Padum.
The monastery of Agia Triada of Tzagarolon is one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Crete. It is built near the airport of Chania, in the position Tzobomylos of the Cape Melecha and at the foothills of Stavros Mount. The distance from Chania is only 15km.
The monastery was built by the Venetian nobles Jeremiah and Lawrence Tzagarolo. Jeremiah was a famous scholar of his era with rich education and was a friend of the Patriarch of Alexandria, Meletios Pigas. Jeremiah himself was a candidate for Patriarch of Constantinople. Moreover, Jeremiah designed and built the monastery complex of the monastery, being affected by the architect Sebastiano Serlio from Verona, Italy.
Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site and self-governed state in the Hellenic Republic, Athos is home to 20 stavropegial Eastern Orthodox monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople. Today Greeks commonly refer to Mount Athos as the "Holy Mountain".
Inside the Bargayar teak monastery. While I set my camera on a ledge to get a photo the children to the left seemed occupied with books and the children to the right recited some sort of script to the monk head-master. It kind of felt like a monastery kindergarten.
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.
One of the highlights of my visit to the monastery was listening to this all-male choir under the direction of Fr. Martin, who has also composed much of the music that is sung here. The music ranges from unison to a very rich four-part harmony.
Jerónimos Monastery, or Hieronymites Monastery, was commissioned by King Dom Manuel I, the Portuguese monarch at the time of Vasco da Gama’s pioneering sea voyage to India in 1498. Construction began in 1501 and took nearly a century. The Discoveries financed the Monastery construction via revenue from the “pepper tax” and a 5 percent levy on trade with Africa and the Orient. Several architects oversaw the building project throughout the sixteenth century, namely Diogo de Botaica, the architect responsible for Belém Tower and one of the key figures of what would become known as the Manueline architectural style, and João de Castilho, who took over the work around 1517. The monks of the Order of Saint Jerome occupied the monastery it's dissolution in the nineteenth century. The Mosteiro was then secularised and handed over to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa, that occupied the building until 1940 with a school and an orphanage. The monastery church became the parish church of the Belém district. In the twentieth century, Jerónimos Monastery underwent major restorations that concluded the central body of the annexe and restored the pews