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Hilandar Monastery #4...
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Copyright: george radonic (gnada) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2662 W: 74 N: 4764] (21695)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-07-27
Categories: Daily Life, Architecture, Artwork
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800
Exposure: f/4.3, 1/600 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-01 6:21
Viewed: 285
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Same serial:
“Discover the secret paradise of Greece”
For today: St Atos Mount - Hilandar, Serbian Orthodox Monastery #4

If you carefully looking to the photo serial, you feels like you've really been there walk around Monasteries. I spend 8.170km. to get over there - adrift...

Reconstructing Hilandar Monastery
From 2004-09: the first phase...

The catastrophic fire that struck the continuously-inhabited Middle Byzantine Hilandar Monastery, the Imperial Serbian Lavra of the Most Holy Mother of God (Mount Athos, Greece) in March 2004 came, ironically, at the completion of the Serbian authorities’ eighteen year conservation plan.

Two 12th Century towers, acting as fire-breaks, saved the older south courtyard and katholikon from destruction, but more than half of the monastery’s masonry and timber enclosure, 15,761sqm, was lost.

Major fires have periodically destroyed Athonite monasteries in whole or part, but Hilandar’s will be the first wholesale reconstruction in the last century and is, thereby, an unprecedented situation in which a very significant proportion of a World Heritage Site is to be rebuilt anew within the minimal remaining standing masonry walls and substructures.

The conservation works of the pre-fire era in the main walled enclosures towers, treasury, refectory, the largely abandoned Saint Basil monastery site, monastic port and hermitages generally set a standard to be emulated The stabilisation, protection and cleaning of the ruins began immediately and work is to be completed ca 2022.

The first five year phase of the fire reinstatement of the intramural heritage structures, the focus of this paper, included the completion of: the porter’s lodge/portarnice, St.

Nicholas chapel/Paraklis Svetog Nikole, (1814), the Range/Konak (1814) and the shell of the 1816–1821 Range/Konak.

This Serbian-Greek reinstatement/conservation project necessitates negotiating the balancing of support of the monastery’s spiritual and daily life (i.e. rebuilding the destroyed administration offices, medical clinic etc) and work and economy (i.e. bakery, painting restoration lab etc) relating to Hilandar’s surviving spaces and moveable heritage, and long-term reinstatement of hostels, work and storage sheds needed in order to initiate this scale of heritage structure reinstatement.

For over a century, until 2004, the expert supervision required to cope with the Hilandar’s heritage came solely from religious and secular entities in Belgrade, but the extent and value of the recent loss triggered a new protocol led by the Thessaloniki-based Centre for Protection of the Heritage of the Holy Mountain and scrutinized by UNESCO and ICOMOS for ‘this Serbian project in Greece’.

Hope you will like it - Thank you for visit...

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  • Great 
  • milas Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2726 W: 412 N: 2986] (32791)
  • [2009-09-01 7:00]

merhaba George...
güzel bir restore çalışması yapılıyor...
tarihe önem güzel şey elbette
selamlar

Ciao George!
odlicna kompozicija i kombinacija slika...impresivno predstavljanje ovog manastira...
dobro svetlo koje rezultiralo prelepim bojama...
pozdrav!
Alper

Ciao my friend George,


Wonderful fortified building,
I'm amazed with so many details on the wall,
Great composition very well captured.
A splendid picture, lovely sharpness and clarity.
Very well done,

Best regards,

Sergio

Hello George,
What a clarity what a beautiful light...
Perfect angle of wiew..
Bravo...
TFS
Selahattin E

Hello George!
Wonderful architecture,beautiful lighting
and the unique sense of St Atos Mount!
Regards and tfs
Kostas

  • Great 
  • starky Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 329 W: 2 N: 43] (2965)
  • [2009-09-02 12:10]

Odlicno predstavljanje pravoslavnog manastira.
Pozdrav, Bosko.

Witaj!
Piekna dokumentacja rekonstrukcji klasztoru.
Super kadr i kompozycja,dobra ostrosc i swiatlo,ladne kolory.
Pozdrawiam
Tadeusz

Hi, George. Beautiful piece of architecture with good sharpness, lighting and color. The architectural details are well captured and presentation is excellent.Including the two pictures gives the composition a post card look. Cheers and TFS.

looks like they were renovating this beautiful place when you visited there.. so lovely to look at the patterns of the building with stunning architecture design.. good job, George..

regards, terry

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