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| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2009-07-28 |
| Categories: Daily Life, Artwork, Portrait |
| Camera: Nikon Coolpix 8800 |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/300 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-09-10 7:12 |
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Same serial:
“Discover the secret paradise of Greece”
For today: St Atos Mount - Hilandar, Serbian Orthodox Monastery #12
If you carefully follow and looking to the photo serial, you feels like you've really been there walk around Monasteries. I spend 8.170km., from Toronto to get over there - adrift...
On this occasion we should briefly describe that spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity, source of worship of Saint Sava, guardian of Serbian cultural inheritance, the most important monument of our history.
St. Simeon (Stefan Nemanja) - monastery of Hilandar
When great Zupan (Head of tribal state) Stefan Nemanja, in monasticism called Simeon, joined his son Sava on the Sveta Gora in 1196, at first they lived in the Greek monastery Vatopedu. Aiming to found a Serbian monastery on Sveta Gora, they turned to the Byzantine emperor Aleksei III Ancel to give them the deserted monastery of Helandar. The Byzantine emperor granted their request, and in 1198 issued a document to Simeon and Sava, giving them Helandar and Mileja - district around the monastery as an eternal gift to the Serbs.
St. Sava, son of Stefan Nemanja - Monastery of Mileseva
The same year the father and the son started raising Hilandar. During the construction in 1199, Simeon died, and the monastery was finished by the end of the year.
There were approximately 15 monks in the monastery at the beginning, but the number soon grew to 90.
During the XIII century Serbian rulers from the Nemanjic Dynasty kept on caring for Hilandar and took over church-founding responsibilities.
Within the monastery walls, in time a multitude of churches decorated with icons and frescoes was built, reconstructed and restored, as well as towers and other constructions. On the place of the small Nemanja´s and Sava´s church, Milutin, the Serbian king raised in 1303 a church in which religious rituals have been performed till the present day. King Milutin, the greatest builder from the Nemanjic Dynasty, raised numerous cells for the Hilandar monks, a joint dining room, powerful towers, and gave to the monastery many estates, hand-written books, church vessels and other valuables. King Stefan Decanski kept the tradition, but Emperor Dusan, who for a short time even ruled Sveta Gora, bestowed abundant gifts to Hilandar and other monasteries from Sveta Gora, approximately 20 of them.
Hilandar and the Sveta Gora lost freedom in 1430, and for almost 5 centuries lived under the Turkish reign - till 1912. Hilandar lost many estates, but, luckily, from 1550 help started coming from Russia.
Hilandar entered the XVIII century aiming to fortify its position by strengthening connections with the orthodox Slavic population. Beside the help from Russia which from the ruler was transferred to the Russian Sacred Synod, the inhabitants of Hilandar turned to the Metropolitan of Karlovci and Serbian church municipalities in the South Hungary. The help came from Serbian parts of Austria-Hungary from rich donors, mostly town-inhabitants: tradesmen and craftsmen. It helped Hilandar live through prolific periods. Even though in the period there were no eminent monks - writers, there were many transcribers who worked hard at the monastery. The school of fresco - painting went through various phases of its development.
During the XIX century the monastery was populated by Bulgarian monks although the connections with Serbian kings were preserved. Duke Miloš Obrenović helped the monastery, and King Aleksandar Obrenovic visited it in 1896 and paid the Serbian debt, since when the monastery became Serbian again. The Karadjordjevic Dynasty kept the founding tradition.
Hope you will like it - Thank you for visit... |
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