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The Dormition of the Theotokos Church (Romanian: Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului) is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 3 Dragoș Vodă Street, Sighetu Marmației, Romania. It is dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos .
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.
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 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 Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition (Arabic: كَاتِدْرَائِيَّةُ سَيِّدَةِ النِّيَاحِ لِلرُّومِ الْمَلَكِيِّينَ فِي دِمَشْقَ, romanized: Kātidrāʾīyat Sayyidat an-Niyāḥ li r-Rūm al-Malakīyīn fī Dimašq), also called the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, [1] is the ...
The Dormition of Saint Ephraim the Syrian The Dormition of Saint Ephraim the Syrian that lived in the 4th c. Portable icon painted by a mid-15th c. Cretan artist. An iconographical novelty is the large icon of the Virgin Hodegetria that seems to serve the needs of the funeral service. Measurement: 51,5 x 69 cm Exhibit Number: ΒΧΜ 01545: Source
The icon, which retains its function as an object of veneration in the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in Syros, was probably brought to the island during the Greek War of Independence. The icon conforms closely to the established pattern for this subject, which was very common in the Orthodox Church in which El Greco was raised and was ...
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin was a popular theme painted by both Greek and Italian artists since the dawn of the new religion. The chronology of the New Testament states that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of Jesus, dying in AD 41 according to Hippolytus of Thebes .