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Valaam (Russian: Валаам or Валаамский архипелаг, also known by the Finnish name Valamo) is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. The total area of its more than 50 islands is 36 km 2. The largest island is also called Valaam.
Valaam was the most important monastery of the Finnish Orthodox Church. The liturgic language was changed from Church Slavonic to Finnish and the liturgic calendar from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. These changes led to bitter decades-long disputes in the monastic community of Valaam. New Valamo monastery in Heinävesi, Finland.
The ancient Valaam Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam, the largest in Lake Ladoga, abandoned between 1611 and 1715, restored in the 18th century, and evacuated to Finland during the Winter War in 1940. In 1989 the monastic activities in the Valaam were resumed.
Sergius and Herman of Valaam on a 20th-century icon from New Valamo monastery. Sergius of Valaam (Сергий Валаамский) was a Greek monk and wonderworker credited with bringing Orthodox Christianity to Karelian and Finnish people. Conflicting church traditions place him possibly as early as the 10th century or as late as the 14th.
New Valamo or New Valaam (Finnish: Valamon luostari, or more informally, especially in the postal address: Uusi-Valamo, Swedish: Valamo nya kloster, Russian: Ново-Валаамский) is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland. The monastery was established in its present location in 1940.
A young military clerk named Egor Ivanovich Popov, from the Voronezh Governorate, was tonsured with the name 'Herman' at Valaam in 1782. [6] All biographers agree that at Valaam, Herman studied under Abbot Nazarius, previously of Sarov Monastery. The abbot had been influenced by the hesychastic tradition of Paisius Velichkovsky. Herman ...
Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel (Russian: Св. Сергий и Герман капеллы Валаам ) is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel in Ouzinkie, Alaska . The chapel is named for the Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam .
Heinävesi: Valaam Monastery. 2017. p. [12], 179. ISBN 978-952-5495-34-8. Kirjeitä Innalle: skeemaigumeni Johanneksen kirjeitä Ina Collianderille vuosilta 1947–1957. Translated by Sergius Colliander. ISSN 0356-2085 [‘Letters to Inna. Letters of Schema-igumen John to Ina Colliander from 1947–1957’]. Heinävesi: Valaam Monastery. 2014 ...