A major fire broke out at an Orthodox monastery located near the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) town of Svyatogorsk on Saturday. The town is controlled by the Ukrainian military and intense fighting has been reported from the area over the past few days. Footage from the scene circulating shows the Skete …
Read More »How was Easter service at St. Michael’s Golden-domed monastery. Photo
People came to the monastery to consecrate the Easter basket. In the night of Sunday, April 28, all Orthodox Kiev celebrate the brightest Christian holidays – Easter. Thousands of people went to bed, and went to temples on the service, and before dawn the monasteries began to gather people with …
Read More »In Turkey will open to tourists a unique monastery
Access allowed since may 18. In Turkish Trabzon, which is located in the North of the country, on the Black sea coast, visitors will discover a unique monastery.Access tourists will be allowed since may 18. “The Sumela monastery (Sümela) will open its doors to visitors on may 18 after the …
Read More »Near Jerusalem discovered the ruins of an ancient monastery
According to the head of the excavations of Benjamin of Storchan, we are talking about a large monastery with the Church of V-VII centuries of our eraIsraeli archaeologists have discovered under the ruins of the ancient Byzantine Jerusalem monastery and the Church age of 1,5 thousand years with well-preserved colorful …
Read More »Saint-Petersburg: in the abandoned building of the monastery found the mummy in jeans
Police are trying to establish the identity of the man. In Saint Petersburg in an abandoned building in the territory of the Alexander Nevsky monastery found the body of a man. According to “Fontanka”, the body lay there long enough and had to be mummified. To identify victim police are …
Read More »Arrive to the monastery the relics of the venerable Paisius Velichkovsky: the date
November 25-29 shrines will be located in Laurel. From 25 to 29 November for the first time in Kiev will be brought for veneration by the faithful in the ark with the relics and the outstanding staff of the devotee and the restorer of the Orthodox eldership of the venerable …
Read More »Vanis-kvabebi: a walk on the unusual Georgian monastery. Photo
This is an amazing place. In Georgia there are many places that you might not even suspect. In this country every piece of land steeped in history immemorial. And among these pieces there are those who for many centuries somehow miraculously manage to remain in the shadows of Time and …
Read More »The controversial Archbishop Mstyslav sold the monastery for a lot of money
The monument of architecture of the Chervonohorod castle Ternopil eparchy of the UAOC handed, OOO for ₴382,5 thousand Archbishop Mstyslav, who was the head of Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and became known after the scandalous fun with girls and alcohol at a local …
Read More »“Cursed monastery” quest for a true Demonologist
You know all these team games, when you wander through abandoned factories and landfills, unravel riddles, looking for clues on the ragged walls and that’s it? Thousands of them. Legion. However, today I read a detailed review of Rahim Jafarov, one of the authors of the publication Disgusting Men, on …
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