Alajah monastery
The Aladscha Monastery ( Bulgarian Аладжа манастир ) is a former cave monastery not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, about 15 km north of the port city of Varna and about three km west of the tourist center Golden Sands . It existed at the latest from the 11th century until after the 14th century.
location
The monastery is located in a forest and is there in a 40 m high cliff halfway up. The rooms were carved out of the soft, chalk-like rock layers on two levels one above the other.
Monastery complex
There were two churches, the actual main church, a second smaller one and a crypt . In addition, monk cells and the refectory can be visited.
Surname
The Christian name of the monastery is not known, in the early 1960s the Bulgarian Christians called it Svata Trojza ( Holy Trinity ). The current name is of Persian or Arabic origin and means "colorful", which probably refers to the colored decorations in the frescoes in the sacred rooms.
history
Its origins are in the dark. The first written mention was made in 1832 in the book by the Russian writer Viktor Tepljakov , Letters from Bulgaria . A first settlement as early as the 4th to 6th centuries is assumed, but is not certain. The paintings that still exist come from the 11th / 12th centuries. or the 13./14. Century from the time of the Tarnow Art School of the Second Bulgarian Empire .
It is also not known when the monastery was abandoned after the Ottoman subjugation of Bulgaria. However, it seems to have been a religious place of worship until the 18th century. A systematic inventory was carried out in the 19th century, and in the 20th century the monastery was included in the list of Bulgarian national monuments . Today it serves as a popular destination for the numerous tourists on the nearby Black Sea coast.
The Phalangiidae species Nelima aladjensis is named after the monastery .
literature
- Bronja Weierstahl: Bulgaria . Kurt Schroeder, 1965, p. 172 f .
Web links
- Аладжа манастир. Retrieved May 26, 2016 (Bulgarian).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Joachim Schüffler (ed.): Image and annunciation. Announcement for Hanna Jursch on her 60th birthday . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1962, p. 117.
- ↑ Археологически музей - Варна: Аладжа манастир. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ A new Nelima Roewer from Bulgaria . In: Spixiana . Journal of Zoology. tape 20 , 1997, pp. 97-105 .
Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 39 ″ N , 28 ° 0 ′ 59 ″ E