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Aerial view of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery (2016) The outer wall of the lavra The monastery in the early 1800s Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, in the belief that this was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alexander Nevsky, a prince, defeated the Swedes.
A lavra or laura (Greek: Λαύρα; Cyrillic: Ла́вра) is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. Lavra monasteries operate within the Orthodox and other Eastern Christian traditions; the name is also used by some Catholic communities.
Lavra, a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits Metochion , an ecclesiastical embassy church within the Eastern Orthodox tradition Stauropegion , a monastery or parish not under the jurisdiction of the local bishop, but directly under the primate or Holy Synod of a particular Church.
The Skete of Prodromos (Greek: Τιμίου Προδρόμου, Romanian: Schitul Prodromu) is a Romanian cenobitic skete belonging to the Great Lavra Monastery. It is located in the southeastern extremity (called Vigla) of Mount Athos, near the cave of Athanasios the Athonite.
The Monastery of Great Lavra (Greek: Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας) is the first monastery built on Mount Athos, on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece.It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of 160 metres (170 yd).
He was the founder and the first hegumen of the monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Zvenigorod on Storozhi hill, which was later named after him (Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery). Sabbas was one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh and spent almost the whole of his life in Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. [1]
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's security service said on Wednesday it had found "dubious" Russian citizens, large sums of cash in various currencies and pro-Russian literature during a raid on a 1,000 ...
Schema-Archimandrite Serapheim (Travassaros) of the Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, also Serapheim Savvaitis the "Elder of the Desert", or Serapheim Agiotafitis, born Stamatios Travassaros (Greek: Ο Γέρων Σεραφείμ Σαββαΐτης, 1900 – January 8, 2003), [1] [note 1] was the Igumen and spiritual father of the Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, in the Bethlehem ...