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Pisanie
A pisanie is an architectural element, that consists of an inscription carved in stone, wood, metal, painted, etc., on the top of tombs or above the main door at the entrance in a church, in which are recorded information about the church, the donor, the founder, the builder, the data when the church was built, etc. The inscription usually includes a religious invocation, the name of the founder or founders, the date of construction, the motivation of the building, the circumstances of the time and other data. The term comes from the Church Slavonic language and many churches and monasteries have the inscription written using the Cyrillic script. Gallery File:Mănăstirea Vorona20.jpg, Stone carved pisanie of the Vorona Monastery ( Vorona, Botoșani County, Romania) File:Floresteni GJ.bislemn.pisanie iconostas.jpg, The painted pisanie of Wooden Floreșteni Church (Gorj County, Romania) File:Biserica de lemn din Bilca4.jpg, Wooden carved pisanie of the Wooden Bilca Church (Bilc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia. The language appears also in the services of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, and occasionally in the services of the Orthodox Church in America. In addition, Church Slavonic is used by some churches which consider themselves Orthodox but are not in communion with the Orthodox Church, such as the Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the Russian True Orthodox Church. The Russian Old Believers and the Co-Believers also use Church Slavonic. Church Slavonic is also used by Greek Catholic Churches in Slavic countries, for example the Croatian, Slovak and Ruthenian Greek Catholics, as well as by the Roman Catholic Church (Croatian and Czech recensions). In the past, Church Slavoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cyrillic Script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, Caucasian languages, Caucasian and Iranian languages, Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by many other minority languages. , around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the Languages of the European Union#Writing systems, European Union, following the Latin script, Latin and Greek alphabet, Greek alphabets. The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vorona Monastery
Vorona Monastery is an Orthodox Monastery in Romania, situated on the territory of Vorona, Botoșani, Vorona commune (Botoșani County). It is set amidst a forest 2 km away from Vorona village. It is listed as a Monument istoric, historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs (Romania), Ministry of Culture and National Identity. See also *Teoctist Arăpașu References * *** - ''"România - Harta mănăstirilor"'' (Ed. Amco Press, 2000) * Gh. Ciobotaru - ''"Istoria m-rii Vorona"'', teză de licență, Institutul Teologic București, 1948 * Nicolae Iorga - ''"O m-re de cărturari: Vorona"'', în "Buletinul Comisiunii Monumentelor Istorice", annul XXV (1933), p. 120. * Mitropolia Moldovei și Sucevei - ''"Monumente istorice bisericești din Mitropolia Moldovei și Sucevei"'' (Ed. Mitropoliei Moldovei și Sucevei, Iași, 1974), p. 361-362 * Al. Simionescu - ''"Mănăstirea Vorona"'', în "Revista Moldovei", annul I (1921), nr. 3–4, p. 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vorona, Botoșani
Vorona is a communes of Romania, commune in Botoșani County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Icușeni, Joldești, Poiana, Vorona, Vorona Mare and Vorona-Teodoru. The commune is located in the southwestern corner of the county, on the border with Suceava County, some south of the county seat, Botoșani, and southeast of Suceava International Airport. Vorona is situated on the Suceava Plateau. It lies on the banks of the Siret (river), Siret River, and its left tributary, the river Vorona (Siret), Vorona. See also *Vorona Monastery References Communes in Botoșani County Localities in Western Moldavia {{Botoşani-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
