Contributions of the group Orthodoxy

Church of St. Basil of Ostrog

nobody@ipernity.com (Petar Bojić) — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:07:11 +0000

Мир Божији, Христос се роди!

nobody@ipernity.com (Petar Bojić) — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:16:25 +0000

To all Orthodox Christians celebrating Christmas Eve and Christmas according to the Julian calendar, happy Christmas Eve and Christmas!

La lumière des ténèbres...!

nobody@ipernity.com (ROL/Photo) — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 12:19:37 +0000

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Bonne Pentecôte à vous tous
La Pentecôte (du grec ancien πεντηκοστὴ ἡμέρα / pentêkostề hêméra, « cinquantième jour ») est une fête chrétienne qui célèbre l'effusion du Saint-Esprit, le cinquantième jour à partir de Pâques, sur un groupe de disciples de Jésus de Nazareth, suivant un épisode figurant dans les Actes des Apôtres.
Dans une petite chapelle Orthodoxe du coté de Kiotari, île de Rhodes (Grèce)

Христос Васкрсе - Ваистину Васкрсе!

nobody@ipernity.com (Petar Bojić) — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:52:08 +0000

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Happy Easter to all Othodox Christians who celebrate Easter in the Julian calendar!
Счастливая Пасха! Честит Великден! Καλό Πάσχα! ბედნიერი აღდგომა! ハッピーイースター！Gëzuar Pashkët! Wesołych Świąt! חג הפסחא שמח!

Greece - Lithochoro, Agios Dionysios Monastery

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:03:45 +0000

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The (old) monastery Agios Dionysios is located in the Enipeas gorge at an altitude of 850 meters in the Olympus Mountains (PiP5). The monastery was directly subordinated to the patriarch of Constantinople.

The monastery was founded in 1542 by Saint Dionysios. Its name was Agia Triada, which means Holy Trinity. Surrounded by strong high walls and equipped with a watchtower, it looked like a small fortress.
During various conflicts the monastery served as a refuge for civilians, but also for military personnel. In its history, the monastery has been plundered and burned, but also rebuilt several times.

In April 1943 the monastery was attacked by the German army. Assuming that the building could be a refuge for Greek resistance fighters, the Germans first bombed it and then destroyed it with explosives. After the destruction of their monastery in 1943, the monks moved to an annex fifteen kilometers from the old monastery and much lower on the slope of the Olympus. That complex, dating from 1650, grew in the following years into the (new) Dionysios monastery.

The remains of the old monastery and the walls that surrounded it are still visible. The main church has been restored and renovated. Its location and the mixtures of ruins and the renovated katholikon (= main church of the monastery) made it for me a special and very charming site.

GR - Athens - Chapel on the Lykavittos

nobody@ipernity.com (Marco F. Delminho) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:27:26 +0000

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ROUMANIE

nobody@ipernity.com (Ernest CH) — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:19:52 +0000

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Roumanie, vacances 1972

Dans une église orthodoxe à Bucarest

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Einen guten Weg

nobody@ipernity.com (sea-herdorf) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:12:25 +0000

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wünsche ich

Greece - Arta, Panagia Parigoritissa

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:42:59 +0000

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The church of the Panagia Parigoritissa, dedicated to the Annunciation, was built at the end of the 13th century by the despot Epirus Nikiphoros Komninos Doukas and his second wife Anna Paliologina. It was formerly the katholion (= main church) of a large monastery. It became a dependence of the Kato Panaghia monastery, when it went bankrupt. The church is mentioned for the first time as a convent for nuns 1578.

Seen from outside the church is a large, almost cubic three-storey building. It is of the octagonal type with a central dome and also four smaller domes on each corner of the church's flat roof.

The interior of the church is extremely elegant and lavishly decorated with wall paintings, sculptures (16th century) and a iconostasis, which replaced the original marble one. The nave is square and has no internal supports. The dome (main picture) - adorned with mosaic depictions of the Pantocrator and the Prophets - rests on eight pilasters, on each of them stand three rows of smaller columns. This kind of architecture most probably has not been used to other Byzantine monuments. This makes the church very fascinating and quite unique.

Nowadays Panagia Parigoritissa is a (kind of) museum, where one has to pay a small entrance fee. But it allows visitors to take pictures.

Greece - Kastoria, Monastery Panagia Mavriotissa

nobody@ipernity.com (Jaap van 't Veen) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:35:53 +0000

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The monastery Panagia Mavriotissa was founded in 1082/83 by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to commemorate the victory over the Normans and the recapture of Kastoria.

It is referred to in documents dating back to the 13th century as the monastery of Panagia Mesonisiotissa (= in the middle of the island). In the second half of the 17th century the name changed to Panagia Mavriotissa, because the inhabitants of the village of Mavrovo (nowadays ‘Mavrochori’) ensured that it remained in good condition.

The monastery played an important role in the history of the area, but remained closed for many years. It was reopened in 1998. Only a few buildings from the original monastery have survived. The church has a spacious narthex on the west side, which was added later. The interior is decorated with murals dating from the beginning of the 13th century. The icons on the outside date from the period 1259 - 1264.

The murals and drawings were damaged - all eyes of saints were removed - during Ottoman period. Some of these old frescoes were restored in the 13th century, while the outer wall of the narthex was decorated with new ones.

Pangia Mavriotissa is located at a beautiful location with very old platanus trees, at the banks of Lake Orestiada, at a distance of four kilometers from Kastoria ( www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/47608732 ) and opposite the village Mavrochori. The monastery is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin. A chapel dedicated to John the Theologian, with wall-paintings executed in 1552 was erected beside it in the 16th century.

Portrait of artists in action

nobody@ipernity.com (Petar Bojić) — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:11:29 +0000

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HFF and a great WE to all!! (Siberian Souvenir/ Ulan Ude)

nobody@ipernity.com (Gabi Lombardo) — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 08:12:32 +0000

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Santorini : Tante chiese a Oia -

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:55:28 +0000

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Saint George Church.

nobody@ipernity.com (Dimas Sequeira) — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:30:34 +0000

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At Bodbe, Cashetia, eastern Georgia.

Saint Nicholas Church.

nobody@ipernity.com (Dimas Sequeira) — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:11:23 +0000

Dimas Sequeira has posted:

At Bodbe, Cashetia, eastern Georgia.

Santorini : le campane a Oia -

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 06:35:14 +0000

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Die Kuppeln der neuen russisch-orthodoxen Kathedrale, Paris (erbaut 2014-2016)

nobody@ipernity.com (LotharW) — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 07:32:12 +0000

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Die Vergolder benötigten ca. 90.000 Blatt Gold (1 Blatt = 80 mm x 80 mm, klassische Größe) damit St. Wladimir diese Prunkzwiebeln erhält. Es gibt seit Beginn der Planung sehr kontroverse Diskussionen über den Bau.

Santorini : Ekklesia Panagia Platsani -

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:23:52 +0000

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Santorini : Oia - Ekklisia Agii Apostoli -

nobody@ipernity.com (Paolo Tanino) — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:44:16 +0000

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Monasterio de la Trinidad y San Sergio - Тро́ице-Се́ргиева Ла́вра (Sérguiev Posad)

nobody@ipernity.com (Marije Aguillo) — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:26:34 +0000

Marije Aguillo has posted:

El monasterio de la Trinidad y San Sergio. en la ciudad de Sérguiev Posad (antiguo Zagorsk) es un importante monasterio ruso y centro espiritual de la iglesia ortodoxa rusa. Sérguiev Posad se encuentra a unos 70 kilómetros al noreste de Moscú en la carretera que va a Yaroslavl. Actualmente alberga a unos 300 monjes. Según la Unesco, que lo declaró Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1993, se trata de «un buen ejemplo de monasterio ortodoxo en funcionamiento, con rasgos militares típicos de los siglos XV al XVIII, período durante el que se desarrolló.»

La iglesia principal de la Laura (monasterio), la catedral de la Asunción, recuerda la homónima catedral del Kremlin y alberga las tumbas de los Godunov.