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The lavra's main Dormition Cathedral was designed by Alexey Gornostaev, who included a traditional Byzantine tower. From 1917 onward, the Bolsheviks plundered and desecrated the monastery on numerous occasions, beating and murdering many monks and in 1922, they shut the monastery down completely, setting up a Sanatorium for the Donbas workers ...
The Death of the Virgin, also known as The Dormition of the Virgin, is a 1564 grisaille painting by Dutch and Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depicting the death of the Virgin Mary with the Apostles and other figures in attendance. It is now displayed in Upton House and under the care of the National Trust. [1]
The Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Greek: Ιερά Μονή Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου) is a men's monastery, which today belongs to the Archbishopric of Athens. [1] It is located on the southern side of Mount Penteli, and is therefore also known as the Penteli Monastery (Ι ερά Μονή Πεντέλης).
The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches (except the East Syriac churches). It celebrates the "falling asleep" (death) of Mary the Theotokos ("Mother of God", literally translated as God-bearer), and her being taken up into heaven.
Dormition Cathedral, formally known as The Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady or simply Uspenski Cathedral (Estonian: Jumalaema Uinumise katedraalkirik) is a cathedral church of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church in Tartu, Estonia.
Robert Byron, according to whom the iconographic type of the Dormition was the compositional model for The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, asserts that El Greco as a genuine Byzantine painter worked throughout his life with a repertoire of components and motifs at will, depending on the narrative and expressive requirements of the art. [6]
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The Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos (Albanian: Kisha e Fjetjes së Virgjëreshës, [1] Greek: Ναός της Κοιμήσεως της Θεοτόκου, Ναός του Τιμίου Σταυρού [2]), simply known as Koimissi or Saint Mary church is a Byzantine-era Albanian Orthodox church in the village of Labovë e Kryqit, in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.