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    Krepcha Monasteries of Provadia Cave monasteries on the Plateau of Shumen Cave monasteries of Tervel Ethiopia Monolithic church France Abbey of Saint-Roman...
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    peace of mind in the monasteries during and after the zombie war. The 2012 film Meteora, directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, is set in the monasteries and...
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    male monasteries for monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Therefore, the name of the monastery is also translated as Kyiv Cave Monastery, Kyiv Caves Monastery...
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    (Moscow Patriarchate) List of Tibetan monasteries List of Carthusian monasteries List of Cistercian monasteries List of cave monasteries Architecture portal...
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    period of 460–480 CE according to later scholarship. The Ajanta Caves constitute ancient monasteries (Viharas) and worship-halls (Chaityas) of different...
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    Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves, formerly called Kattaka Gumpha or Cuttack caves, are partly natural and partly artificial caves of archaeological, historical...
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  • Source: [25] There are several cave monasteries (built into mountains and caves) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, including those of the Holy Annunciation, Kovilje...
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    earth shelter dwelling in the Loess Plateau List of cave monasteries Ostrog Monastery – Serbian Orthodox monastery on Ostroška Greda, Montenegro Degua Tembien –...
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    District. List of Serbian monasteries Stanjevići Monastery Morača Monastery Piva Monastery Cetinje Monastery Podmaine Monastery Reževići Monastery Dajbabe...
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  • This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...
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    Monolithic church (category Cave churches)
    Bochnia Salt Mine List of cave monasteries Petra Ellora Caves Chapelle Sainte Radegonde (Chinon) Ghelawdewos Araia, The Magnificence of Aksum: Revisiting...
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    Archaeological Survey of India has listed Sittanavasal Cave in the list of "Must See" Indian Heritage. The Sittanavasal Cave are listed as one of the Adarsh Smarak...
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  • This is a list of Eastern Orthodox monasteries that are individually notable. Ardenica Monastery St. George's Monastery, Sarandë Aladzha Monastery Albotin...
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    above the caves fed rainwater into cisterns, which provided the complex with water. Once the caves were converted to permanent monasteries, their walls...
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    The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Catholics believed to...
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    the fortress-caves, monasteries, and the surrounding villages. Despite these attacks, the Deir Qannubin monastery was to become the seat of the Maronite...
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    Monastery of the Cave". The name commonly used for the monastery today, Geghard, or more fully Geghardavank (Գեղարդավանք), meaning "the Monastery of the...
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    in front of a cave, there are several monastery buildings. The cave, which was converted into a church, constitutes the center of the monastery. The library...
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    the cave Guest house, view from across the Tsarap Footbridge over the Tsarap, trail from Purney List of buddhist monasteries in Ladakh Geography of Ladakh...
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    Matka Canyon (category Caves of North Macedonia)
    several medieval monasteries. The Matka Lake within the Matka Canyon is the oldest artificial lake in the country. There are ten caves at Matka Canyon...
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    but developed to serve the monasteries that sprang up nearby. The earliest decorated Mogao Caves remaining to this day (caves 268, 272 and 275), were built...
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  • only two Buddhist caves in India arranged in such a way. Caves 1 through 9 are all monasteries while Cave 10, the Vīśvakarmā Cave, is a major Buddhist...
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  • List of Himalayan monasteries and shrines is a list of Buddhist monasteries and shrines in the Himalayas. Buddhism had spread to the Himalayan region...
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    Steve Kokker, Cathryn Kemp (2004). Romania & Moldova, Lonely Planet Publications, p. 232. ISBN 1-74104-149-X Scărișoara Cave - Romanian Monasteries.org...
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    Vardzia (redirect from Vardzia caves)
    ვარძია [vaɾdzia]) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty...
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    founded two other monasteries known as Dodo's Rka (literally, "the horn of Dodo") and Natlismtsemeli ("the Baptist"). The monastery saw further development...
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    Rinpoche's cave. Gate at Takthok Ancient murals at Thagthok List of buddhist monasteries in Ladakh Geography of Ladakh Tourism in Ladakh "Takthok Monastery". Buddhist-temples...
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    Indian rock-cut architecture (category Rock-cut architecture of India)
    temples and monasteries, many with gavakshas (chandrashalas). The ascetic nature of these religions inclined their followers to live in natural caves and grottos...
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    as burial caves (Petra in Jordan) or as temples and monasteries (India). Rock structures of the pre-Columbian advanced civilizations of the Americas...
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    Churches of Ivanovo (Bulgarian: Ивановски скални църкви, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid...
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