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This is near Prague Castle, looking back down toward the last switchback. In the background are the twin spires of Strahov Monastery.
Prohor Pčinjski (Serbian Cyrillic: Прохор Пчињски) is an 11th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in the deep south of Serbia, located in village Klenike, Pčinja District near the border with Macedonia. It is situated at the slopes of Kozjak at the left side of the Pčinja river.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
Sanahin, together with the nearby Haghpat Monastery, were founded around the 10th century and was the centre of learning in the region. A number of detailed and sophisticated manuscripts were produced in Sanahin and had survived in different museums.
Sanahin, Lori Province, northern Armenia.
The Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod is located about 30 km to the south of Český Krumlov, on the right bank of the Vltava river. The monastery church with its adjacent buildings was constructed step-by-step from the mid 13th century and it was finished in the later half of the 14th century. The oldest part is the one floor sacristy dated about 1270.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
The Labrang Monastery, founded in 1709 and located in Xiahe County, Gansu province is considered to be perhaps the most important Tibetan monastery outside of Tibet.
There are 2,000 monks in residence. The town itself is only 20,000 people comprised of 70% Tibetans, 20% Hui Chinese and 10% Han Chinese.
Bistrita Monastery is an Orthodox monastery located in Bistrita village, north of the Costesti Commune, in Vâlcea County.
It is important to sepecify the location, since there is also a completely different Mănăstirea Bistrita located in the Neamtz county, in the north-east part of Romania.
Initially build between 1492 and 1494 by the Craiovesti boyars, it was destroyed in 1509 by Mihnea cel Rău and subsequently rebuilt between 1515 and 1519 by the Craiovesti.
The monastery was rebuilt for a third time between 1846 and 1855, following the damage sustained during the 1838 earthquake.
The new, big church that you can see today was painted by the famous painter Gheorghe Tattarescu.
The first documents of the monastery are preserved in the "decree of donation" dated 16 March 1494 belonging to Vlad Voda.
Bistrita Monastery has been destroyed up to its foundations by Mihnea Voda 1509.
A contemporary document mentions that Mihnea Voda Craiovesti fighting, "and their monastery, which they had done evil pre Bistritii have vanished from the foundation."
It was rebuilt during Neagoe between 1515 - 1519 by noblemen throughout Craiovesti.
The foundation is still preserved today Craiovesti infirmary church (1520-1521).
The church is dedicated to the Transfiguration, what we call the "The Change of the Face" and it has an impressive interior fresco of late Paleologue tradition.
History
The great Ban of Oltenia, Barbu Craiovescu, purchased from Constantinople the most precious treasure of the shrine - the relics of Saint Gregory Decapolite.
His holy body has never rotted and turned bearing great gifts: cure bodily and spiritual diseases, bring rain during drought, thus making the shrine to be assaulted by many pilgrims.
Legend says that the holy relics were bought from a Turk with the gold of Craiovescu Barbu.
The turk seller hoped that he will get a significant amount of gold, equivalent to the weight of relics.
But put on a plate, the saint indeed weighed very little, so he got just a pittance.
This make the Turk exclaim: "See, see how the Christian choose Christian!"
It is also known as 1763 when the plague engulfed Bucharest, the coffin with the relics of Saint Gregory Decapolite was brought in front of the Metropolitan Church and prayers held.
Soon after, the plague began to receed and disappeared forever.
Prince Constantine in 1656, donated a silver shrine in the holy relics to be placed.
In 1683 Constantin Brancoveanu Monastery donate a bell, a priceless object that weighs 800 kg, a chandelier decorated with ostrich eggs, and the miracle working icon of St. Anna.
After the earthquake of 1810, the place is seriously affected, during the reign of Gheorghe Barbu Stirbei Bibescu
Between 1846-1855 the monastery had to be rebuilt.
The painting new church, built in Gothic, not normal Orthdox style, was executed by George Tattarescu in 1850.
Amonumental painting with realistic large registries
On the walls are also painted the founders, 'ctitorii": Craiovescu Barbu, Constantin Brancoveanu, Mrs. Mary , and Ms. Despina Stirbei Barbu.
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
Another picture of the Church of the monastery in Riddagshausen, Brunswick. This time no tonemapping (like here).