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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.
Labrang monastery
Taken on a two week long "Wild China" trip with Intrepid Travel
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In the grounds of Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness
Around AD 580, St Columba made the long journey from his Isle of Iona monastery to the Inverness court of Bridei, king of the Picts. As he was travelling up Loch Ness, Columba was summoned to visit an elderly Pictish nobleman at Airdchartdan (Urquhart). Emchath was close to death, and Columba baptised him and his entire household.
Emchath’s residence may have stood on the site of the castle. The discovery of a fragment of Pictish brooch from the late 700s or early 800s hints that the promontory was possibly a high status Pictish site.
Urquhart saw much military action from the 1200s until its demise in 1692. Edward I of England – ‘Hammer of the Scots’ – captured the castle in 1296. The stronghold was then reclaimed by the Scots and lost to the English once more.
In the 1300s, Urquhart featured prominently in the Scots’ struggle for independence. The castle came under the control of Robert the Bruce after he became King of Scots in 1306. In 1332, in the dark days following Robert I’s death, Urquhart was the only Highland castle to hold out against the English.
But as one threat faded away, a new one emerged: the MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles. Time and again, they swept through Glen Urquhart in their quest for more power, and the castle passed back and forth between the Crown and the clan.
Their last raid, in 1545, proved the worst. The Islesmen got away with an enormous hoard, including 3 great boats and 20 guns.
James IV had given the barony of Urquhart to the Grant family in 1509, along with instructions to restore the castle and estate. The Grants built the Grant Tower, a five-storey tower house, at some point during the 1500s.
In 1688, the Catholic King James VII and II was driven into exile. The crown passed jointly to his Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband William of Orange.
This ‘Glorious Revolution’ prompted the first of the Jacobite Risings – a string of armed attempts to restore the Catholic Stuart line – which continued for more than 50 years.
Much of the Jacobites’ support came from the Highlands, and so Urquhart became a garrison for government forces for more than two years. When the last soldiers marched out of the castle in 1692, they blew it up.
Urquhart soon fell into decay, and part of the Grant Tower crashed to the ground in 1715 during a violent storm.
Attitudes to the ancient stronghold changed in the 1800s, and Urquhart came to be seen as a noble ruin in a majestic setting. It passed into state care in 1913.
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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.
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).
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.
Located in Hong Kong, Lantau Island, Po Lin Monastery stands next to the Tian Tan Buddha. It was extremely foggy on my visit. In a way, I was lucky because without the fog, this photo would be ripped of it's mysterious feel.
The former Servite monastery in Schönbühel was founded in the 17th c by a pious aristocratic family who had converted to Catholicism. Their objective was to replicate the event of salvation that had unfolded in Israel, with Golgotha, the Entombment of Christ and the birthplace of Jesus in "subterranean Bethlehem."
However, it was as a pilgrimage church that the monastic church gained fame. Believers pilgrimaged there to seek help from Saint Rosalia, protectress against the plague. Following the Josephine church reforms, pilgrimage activity dropped off sharply. The monastery was finally closed in 1980 for a lack of new novices joining the community. (www.donau.com)
The ice isn't anywhere close to off the pond yet, but the snow person is long gone.
Taken with the Zumi.