Simonos Petras
Moni Simonos Petras ( Greek Ιερά Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας Ierá Moní Símonos Pétras , German 'Holy Monastery of the Rock of Simons' , also Σιμωνόπετρα Simonópetra for short ) is a Greek Orthodox monastery on the Athos peninsula , Greece . In the monastery hierarchy of Athos it occupies the thirteenth place.
According to legend, it was founded in the 13th century by Simon the Athonites and expanded in 1364 by the Serbian despot Jovan Uglješa . Some historians consider the Serbian prince to be the actual founder. After a fire in the 16th century, which severely destroyed the monastery, it was renovated by the Romanian Prince Michael the Brave . In the first few centuries most of the monks were Serbs. Under the later Ottoman rule, the monastery almost went under before Greek monks came from Asia Minor , who have traditionally inhabited the monastery over the past centuries. Most recently it was considered a refuge for monks of the Meteora monasteries, who fled the tourism there and the nationalistic appropriation by the military junta . As such, it was given a new coinobitic order and revitalized by Abbot Emilianos from 1973 onwards.
The monastery is located on the west coast of Mount Athos and is reminiscent of Tibetan monasteries due to its construction . It is located at a height of more than 200 meters on a rather steep cliff that completely encloses it. The building has ten floors with a total height of around 40 meters. The monastery is dedicated to the birth of Christ .
The choir of the monastery has built a great reputation for publishing many Byzantine chants. The hymn Agni Parthene is the most popular from this collection; he has brought the monastery worldwide recognition.
There is a daughter monastery ( Metochi ) in France: Monastère Saint Antoine le Grand.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Arch. Aimilianos of Simonopetra: Spiritual life . Indiktos, Athens 2013, ISBN 978-960-518-421-6 , pp. 17 .
- ^ Monastère Orthodox Saint Antoine le Grand , accessed October 5, 2015.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′ 23.6 " N , 24 ° 14 ′ 45.2" E