Album Art Paraklesis Monks of Simonopetra Monastery Mount Athos
| Σιμωνόπετρα | |
 Southern view of the monastery. | |
| Location inside Mount Athos | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Holy Monastery of Simonopetra |
| Other names | Simonos Petra |
| Order | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
| Established | 13th century |
| Dedicated to | Birth of Jesus |
| Diocese | Mount Athos |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Simon the Athonite |
| Prior | Archimandrite Elder Eliseus |
| Site | |
| Location | Mountain Athos, Greece |
| Coordinates | xl°11′23″North 24°14′44″E / 40.189722°N 24.245556°Due east / 40.189722; 24.245556 Coordinates: 40°eleven′23″Due north 24°14′44″E / 40.189722°N 24.245556°Due east / 40.189722; 24.245556 |
| Public access | Men simply |
Simonopetra Monastery (Greek: Σιμωνόπετρα, literally: "Simon'southward Rock"), also Monastery of Simonos Petra (Greek: Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. Simonopetra ranks thirteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
The monastery is located in the southern coast of the Athos peninsula, betwixt the Athonite port of Dafni and Osiou Grigoriou monastery. While the southern coast of Athos is quite rugged in general, the particular site upon which the monastery is built is exceptionally harsh. Information technology is built on height of a single huge rock, practically hanging from a cliff 330 metres over the bounding main.[i] The monastery currently houses 54 monks, and the hegumen is Archimandrite Eliseus.
History [edit]
The monastery was founded during the 13th century by Simon the Athonite, who was later sanctified past the Eastern Orthodox Church as Saint Simon the Myrrh-bearer. Tradition holds that Simon, while dwelling in a nearby cave, saw a dream in which the Theotokos instructed him to build a monastery on top of the stone, promising him that she would protect and provide for him and the monastery. The original monastery was called by Simon "New Bethlehem" (Greek: Νέα Βηθλεέμ) and is to this day defended to the Nativity of Jesus.
In 1364, the Serbian despot Jovan Uglješa funded the renovation and expansion of the monastery.
Russian pilgrim Isaiah wrote that, by the end of the 15th century, the monastery was Bulgarian.[2]
In 1581, Simonopetra was destroyed by a burn down, in which a large portion of the monks died. Evgenios, the monastery's abbot traveled to the Danubian Principalities hoping to raise funds to rebuild the monastery. The most important donor was Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, who donated large portions of country as well as money to the monastery. The monastery was also burnt in 1626, and the last not bad fire happened in 1891, later which the monastery was rebuilt to its electric current form.
During recent centuries, the monks of the monastery were traditionally from Ionia in Asia Minor. However, during the mid 20th century the brotherhood was greatly thinned out considering of a groovy reduction in the influx of new monks. The current brotherhood originates from the Holy Monastery of Not bad Meteoron in Meteora as in 1973 the Athonite community headed by Archimandrite Emilianos decided to repopulate the almost abandoned monastery.
Architecture [edit]
The monastery consists of several multi-storeyed buildings, the main existence in the place of the original structure, congenital by Simon. The master building has been described every bit the "most bold construction of the peninsula".[3] The monks of Simonopetra traditionally count the floors from top to bottom, thus the elevation floor is the get-go floor and the bottom floor the final. The monastery is built on top of the underlying massive rock, and the rock runs through the lower floors.
The expansion and development of Simon's original structure near e'er followed one of the monastery's smashing fires. Following the 1580 burn down and with the funds gathered by abbot Evgenios, the western building was erected. The eastern building was built post-obit the 1891 burn down mostly with funds raised in Russia.
Choir [edit]
The choir of Simonopetra has grown in reputation amidst Byzantine music specialists and enthusiasts. The monastery has published a series of collections of ecclesiastic Byzantine chants by the choir. Of these, Agni Parthene is the well-nigh popular and has earned the choir and the monastery widespread recognition.
Recordings include:
- Hymns from the Psalter (1990)
- O Pure Virgin (Agni Parthene) (1990)
- Divine Liturgy (1999)
- Great Vespers (1999)
- Paraklesis (1999)
- Service of Saint Simon (1999)
- Sunday Matins (Orthros) (1999)
- Service of St. Silouan the Athonite (2004)
Gallery [edit]
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Monastery and Aqueduct of Simopetra, 1834
References [edit]
- ^ mountathos.gr Archived 2007-01-08 at the Wayback Car
- ^ A. E. Bakalopulos (1973). History of Macedonia, 1354-1833. [By] A.E. Vacalopoulos. p. 166.
At the end of the 15th century, the Russian pilgrim Isaiah relates that the monks back up themselves with various kinds of piece of work including the cultivation of their vineyards....He also tells usa that nearly half the monasteries are Slav or Albanian. Equally Serbian he instances Docheiariou, Grigoriou, Ayiou Pavlou, a monastery near Ayiou Pavlou and dedicated to St. John the Theologian (he no uncertainty means the monastery of Ayiou Dionysiou), and Chilandariou. Panteleïmon is Russian, Simonopetra is Bulgarian, and Karakallou and Philotheou are Albanian. Zographou, Kastamonitou (see fig. 58), Xeropotamou, Koutloumousiou, Xenophontos, Iveron and Protaton he mentions without any designation; while Lavra, Vatopedi (encounter fig. 59), Pantokratoros, and Stavronikita (which had been recently founded past the patriarch Jeremiah I) he names specifically every bit being Greek (see map six).
- ^ Greek Ministry of Culture Archived 2006-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
External links [edit]
- Simonopetra monastery at the Mountain Athos website (Internet Archive)
- Liturgica.com: the recordings of the choir of Simonopetra
- Youtube: The recordings of the Choir of Simonopetra
- History of monastery (grec.)
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonopetra
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