The Monastery of Mary of the Spring
The Monastery of the mother of God at the Spring (full name in Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου τῆς Πηγῆς, pr. Moni tis Theotóku tis Pigis; Turkish name: Balıklı Meryem Ana Rum Manastiri) or simply Zoödochos Pege (Greek: Ζωοδόχος Πηγή, «Life-giving Spring») is an Eastern Orthodox sanctuary in Istanbul, Turkey. The present church, built in 1835, […]
Lips Monastery
The Monastery of Lips was a complex of two connecting churches. The first one of which (North church) was restored by the patrician Konstantinos Lips from a sixth-century church (Macridy, Theodore. ‘The Monastery of Lips and the Burials of the Palaeologi’. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 18. 1964: 258) and consecrated to the Theotokos (Mother of God) […]
Monastery of Stoudios
The monastery of Stoudios was founded in 453 in the southwest of Constantinople (Mango, Cyril. ‘The Date of the Studius Basilica at Istanbul’. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 4, no. 1, 1 January 1978: 115–22), not far from the Marmara Sea It is considered one of the first examples of the religious architecture of Eastern […]
The Monastery of Mor Abrohom and Mor Hobel
The Monastery of Mor Abrohom and Mor Hobel lies on a hill about one kilometre East of the city of Midyat. The monastic establishment is enclosed by tough modern walls and it includes three churches, two of which dates before the Arab conquest. According to the local tradition, it was founded in the fifth century […]
The Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites The Younger
The Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger (Turkish: Aziz Simon manastır) lies on a hill roughly 29 kilometers southwest of Antakya and 6 kilometers to the east of Samandağ, in the southernmost Turkish province of Hatay. This was said to stand on the «miraculous mountain», possibly because it was near Mt. Cassius which was […]
The Monastery of Mor Barsawmo
The monastery of Mor Barsawmo, also currently known as the “House of the Mother of God, Meryem [Mary] and Mor Barsawmo”, is a rock-cut religious complex carved into the west side of a low hill, around 800 m northeast of the monastery of Mor Yaqub at Salah as the crow flies. The area between the […]
The Monastery of Saint John of Vazelon
The Monastery of Vazelon (Μονή Βαζελώνος) is or the Monastery of Ioannes Prodromos (Αγίου Ιωάννου Προδρόμου) a ruin located in the Black Sea region of Turkey, which had been regarded as a center of Greek Orthodox life in Maçka area, retaining some control over surrounding villages until its disestablishment. Today, the monastery is accepted one […]
The Monastery of Mor Abraham of Kashkar
This monastery, said Marlia Mundell, is known as the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izlo. It was founded by Abraham of Kashkar (d.588). Abraham, who was from the Kashkar region (today al-Wasit) in southern Iraq. In 571, he formed the monastic order, which consists of 12 rules and which is followed by the Eastern Syriacs. He […]
The Monastery of Mor Aho
The Monastery of Mor Aho, according to the tradition, was built by the saint himself with his patron Theodore and his disciple Heworo, who named the complex «Bnoyel», mening ‘built by God’. The Roman commander Demetrius, who was assigned to a military unit in the Castle of Ṭur ʿAbdin (Comfort, Anthony. ‘Fortresses of the Tur […]
The Monastery of Panagia Theoskepastos
The Panagia Theoskepastos Monastery (Παναγία Θεοσκέπαστος, the God-guarded»), today known in Turkish Kızlar Monastery, is a former female monastery built during the Empire of Trebizond.