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Theotokos Kosmosoteira
The Theotokos Kosmosoteira ( el, Θεοτόκος η Κοσμοσώτειρα, , Theotokos the World-Saviour) is a Greek Orthodox monastery in Feres, Evros Prefecture, Greece. It was built around 1152 by the ''sebastokrator'' Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The monastery became the core of the settlement of Feres, but is last attested in the mid-14th century. By the 15th-century, under the Ottoman Empire, the complex was a mosque; it again became a church in 1940. History Isaac began construction of the monastery, which was meant as his residence and final resting place, sometime before 1152. The site, known as Bera ( gr, Βήρα, from a Slavic word for "marsh") was then uninhabited and densely overgrown location, but the main church (''katholikon'') was apparently erected on the remains of an earlier, possibly Roman-era, building. Isaac drafted its regulations ('' typikon'') himself, with those of the Theotokos Euergetis Monastery at Consta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monastery Of Panagia Kosmosotira, Ferres, Evros
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary, and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
