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    A katholikon or catholicon (Greek: καθολικόν) or sobor (Church Slavonic: съборъ) refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church: The cathedral...
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    parts of the monastery are the Katholikón (main church) and the refectory, dating from the 11th century. The Katholikón has the typical shape of a Byzantine...
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    The Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Тро́ицкий собо́р) is a cathedral church, the oldest of all the remaining buildings in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius...
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    Rhine. She founded Marfo-Mariinsky Convent in Moscow in 1908 and its katholikon is recognized as an Art Nouveau masterpiece. Another notable union in...
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    17th-century defensive towers and walls, the surviving buildings include the katholikon (main church), the Neoclassical cathedral of the Holy Trinity (1833–1838)...
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    The Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos is a katholikon (main church) completed in 1122 in the Monastery of St. Antony, Veliky Novgorod. Dedicated...
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    Eastern Orthodox Church, the Latin word cathedral commonly translates as katholikon (sobor in Slavic languages), meaning 'assembly', but this title is also...
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    academy declined in importance. The surviving buildings include the Baroque katholikon of the Holy Mandylion (originally constructed in 1660-1661; rebuilt in...
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    The main buildings within the walled circuit are the following: The katholikon of the Resurrection (1656–1685) is a huge rotunda patterned after the...
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    Maximus the Confessor may have been shaped by his contemplations on the katholikon at Saint Catherine's Monastery – not a unique case of a theological idea...
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  • to: An East Slavic synonym for synod in the Eastern Orthodox Church A katholikon, a privileged type of church building in the Orthodox Church Zemsky Sobor...
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    Hosios Loukas adjoins a larger cathedral church, or Katholikon, tentatively dated to 1011-12. The Katholikon is the earliest extant domed-octagon church, with...
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    building as Trinity Church, after its easternmost sanctuary; the status of "katholikon" (собор, sobor, large assembly church) had not been bestowed on it yet:...
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    of their clerical community. A conventual church (in Eastern Orthodoxy katholikon) is the main church in a Christian monastery or convent, known variously...
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    на Бору) of the Kremlin, the oldest church of Moscow, was its original katholikon. Upon its removal to the left bank of the Moskva River in 1491, the abbey...
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    The katholikon was built between 1693 and 1696....
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    (1890) by Enrique Simonet Christ Pantocrator mosaic in the dome above the Katholikon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Crucifixion of Jesus...
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    allows it to have a particular layout filled with many buildings. The katholikon is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus and was the first church...
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    Afentelli Eressos Church of Agios Stephanos Mantamados Katholikon of Moni Taxiarchon Kato Tritos Katholikon of Moni Damandriou Polichnitos Metamorphosi Soteros...
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    April [O.S. 23 March] 1992, fifty bishops solemnly transferred them to the Katholikon (main church) of the Donskoy Monastery in a place of honour by the soleas...
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    Inside the old katholikon...
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    construction of the monastery together with its katholikon (cathedral) was finished in 1365. The katholikon was replaced with a new one in 1431 and then...
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    The five-domed katholikon is dedicated to the Holy Trinity...
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    The katholikon of St. Nicholas Convent, formerly the 13th century Juditten Church...
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    Brusilov's grave near the 500-year-old katholikon of the Novodevichy Convent (in the background)...
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    Christ the Saviour in Moscow, in 2024 the icon was transferred to Old Katholikon of the Trinity Lavra in Sergiyev Posad. The Trinity was painted on a vertically...
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    takes place every summer Kareas Monastery, an orthodox monastery whose katholikon dates from the 11-12th century. It is located at the west slopes of Hymettus...
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    church. It appears that the Kapnikarea church may have originally been the katholikon of a monastery. Presently, the building is formed by a complex of three...
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    phiale was also built in the atrium of, or just outside, a church or the katholikon (main church) of a monastery. Typically, there is an open arcade of columns...
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    Monastery - Katholikon, Distomo, Greece (11th century) Templon has been filled with icons. St. John the Forerunner Monastery - Katholikon, Athens, Greece...
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