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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.
The Monastery of St. Varlaam is an Eastern Orthodox monastery that is part of the Meteora monastery complex in Thessaly, central Greece. It is situated at the top of a rocky precipice 373 meters above the valley floor. It was founded around 1350 by a monk named Varlaam, followed by a few other monks.
Decades later in the early 15th century after Varlaam died, the cliff was abandoned by the rest of the monks.
In the early 16th century two brothers from Ioannina, the priest-monks Theophanes and Nectarios, decided to reactivate the abandoned monastery. They settled on the cliff spending many years building a new chapel dedicated to “All Saints” in 1541.
The Holy Monastery of Varlaam offers exceptional views to its visitors as well as a beautiful new museum where they exhibit many of the monastery’s valuable relics, art, and manuscripts.
Drepung Monastery is known as the most important monastery of Gelugpa in Tibetan Buddhism. It is considered one of the 'Three Great Monasteries' (the other two are the Ganden Monastery and the Sera Monastery. It held 7,700 monks in total and possessed 141 fazendas and 540 pastures in its heyday, and is the largest-scale monastery among the ones of the same kind. Seen from afar, its grand, white construction gives the monastery the appearance of a heap of rice. As such, it was given the name 'Drepung Monastery' which, in the Tibetan language, means Monastery of Collecting-Rice.
Since the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet in the 1950s, Drepung Monastery, along with its peers Ganden and Sera, have lost much of their independence and spiritual credibility in the eyes of Tibetans since they operate under the close watch of the Chinese security services.
This is the monastery in Leśniów. It's one of the most popular religious sites in southern Poland.
The monastery itself isn't why people visit, but for the spring water that surrounds the monastery, which locals believe has the power to heal bad sight.
This is the second one of these in Europe I went to and niether of them worked. I even drank a whole bottle of it, and nothing happend. Some people say it only works if you believe in it. My aunt said it worked fo my grandma, but since I have no actual evidence of that, I'll never know for sure whether or not the springs of Leśniów really have some kind of power or not. Either way, that doesn't stop believers from coming here, and testing the legend for themselves.
Monastery entrance. For more information about Bachkovo and Bulgaria, please visit www.bluebulgaria.com.
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.
You can see the young yangzi down in the bottom of the valley. We gave some money to help build a monastery outside of Lijiang. There were a few tibetian monks there.
Construction work gets underway for Round Tower GAA Club's Monastery Road Development. Pictures taken July 7th 2011 by Padraig McCarthy.
Bulgarian monk Nikanor, 32, looks inside the church of Tsurnogorski monastery, some 50 km (31miles) west of the capital Sofia, September 24, 2008. The Nasdaq broker turned monk advises his former colleagues, shattered by the financial crisis, to keep a jar full of soil on their desks to remind them about where we are all heading to and what really matters in life. Five years ago, after failing to find happiness in the life he lived, the Orthodox Christian who hadn't practised as a child quit the New York-based market for a dilapidated Bulgarian monastery that once served as a communist labor camp. Picture taken September 24, 2008.REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA)
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.
Perched at the western edge of Mount Carmel, high above the Mediterranean and the coastal city of Haifa, is Stella Maris Monastery and church.
The name of the 19th-century monastery — Latin for “Star of the Sea” — refers not to the magnificent view, but rather to an early title accorded Mary, the mother of Jesus.
The monastery is the world headquarters of a Catholic religious order of friars and nuns, the Carmelites.
The order had its origins at the end of the 12th century when St Berthold, a Frenchman who had gone to the Holy Land as a Crusader, had a vision of Christ denouncing the evil done by soldiers.
Monastery of Santa Maria de Flor da Rosa, now the Pousada Mosteiro Crato
The Mosteiro de Flor da Rosa is considered to be the most important example of a fortified monastery in the Iberian Peninsula; it is now a hotel in the Pousadas of Portugal chain.
This monastery is made up of three distinct buildings: the Gothic-style fortress church, a gothic pavilion with 16th-century alterations, and the other conventual premises.
The whole set has been altered throughout the centuries, namely in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and later in the twentieth century, where there was a greater concern for preservation of the original Gothic plan. In fact, in the time of King D. Manuel I, the monastic space was enlarged to a greater number of rooms, turning it into a Royal Palace, with the great earthquake of 1755 and a devastating storm in 1897.
The Monastery of the Order of the Hospital of Flor da Rosa was classified as a National Monument in 1910 and in the 1940s, restoration work began. Later, in 1991, work began on conversion to a Pousada de Portugal, by architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça, opening to the public in 1995.
The Monastery of Saint Ivan of Rila, better known as the Rila Monastery (Bulgarian: Рилски манастир, Rilski manastir) is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km (73 mi) south of the capital Sofia in the deep valley of the Rilska River at an elevation of 1,147 m (3,763 ft) above sea level. The monastery is named after its founder, the hermit Ivan of Rila (876 - 946 AD).
The Holy Monastery of the Virgin of Kykkos was founded around the end of the 11th century by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081u20131118). The monastery lies at an altitude of 1318 meters on the north west face of Trou00f6dos Mountains. There are no remains of the original monastery as it was burned down many times.
The outer walls of the 16th-century Erdene Zuu Monastery, the oldest surviving Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. It was built using stones from the ruins of the adjacent city of Kharakhorum, the 13th-century capital of the Mongol Empire that was built by the son of Genghis Khan.
Built in 1679, the monastery is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan province. It is also the most important monastery in southwest China.
It belongs to the Yellow Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelukpa order of the Dalai Lama.
Its architecture is a fusion of the Tibetan and Han Chinese. It was extensively damaged in the Cultural Revolution and subsequently rebuilt in 1983