Хиландар Χιλανδαρίου | |
 Exterior view | |
  Location within Mount Athos | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Holy Imperial Monastery of Hilandar |
| Order | Monastic community of Mount Athos |
| Denomination | Serbian Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Established | 1198 |
| Dedicated to | Three-handed Theotokos (Virgin Mary) The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Saint Sava and Saint Symeon |
| Archbishop | Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople |
| Site | |
| Location | Mount Athos, Greece |
| Coordinates | 40°20′46″N 24°07′08″E / 40.346111°N 24.118889°E |
| Public access | Men only |
The Hilandar Monastery ( /hˈɪləndər/, HEE-ləhn-dəhr, Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Хиландар, romanized: Manastir Hilandar, Serbian pronunciation: [xilǎndaːr], Greek: Μονή Χιλανδαρίου) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian Orthodox monastery there.
It was founded in 1198 by two Serbs from Grand Principality of Serbia, Stefan Nemanja (Saint Symeon) and his son Saint Sava. St. Symeon was the former Grand Prince of Serbia (1166–1196) who upon relinquishing his throne took monastic vows and became an ordinary monk. He joined his son Saint Sava who was already in Mount Athos and who later became the first Archbishop of Serbia.
Upon its foundation, the monastery became a focal point of the Serbian religious and cultural life,[1][2] as well as assumed the role of "the first Serbian university".[3] It is ranked fourth in the Athonite hierarchy of 20 sovereign monasteries.[4]
It is regarded as the historical Serbian monastery on Mount Athos, traditionally inhabited by Serbian Orthodox monks.[5][6][7][8][9]
The Mother of God through her Icon of the Three Hands (Trojeručica) is considered the monastery's abbess.[10]
The monastery contains about 45 working monks.[when?]
- ^ Fine 1994, p. 38.
- ^ Ken Parry (10 May 2010). The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 233ff. ISBN 978-1-4443-3361-9.
- ^ Om Datt Upadhya (1 January 1994). The Art of Ajanta and Sopoćani: A Comparative Study : an Enquiry in Prāṇa Aesthetics. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 65ff. ISBN 978-81-208-0990-1.
- ^ "The administration of Mount Athos". Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
- ^ James Francis LePree Ph.D., Ljudmila Djukic (9 September 2019). The Byzantine Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 206. ISBN 9781440851476.
Quote 1: Hilandar Monastery, a Serbian Orthodox monastery built in 1198, is one of twenty monasteries located on Mount Athos in Greece. A monastic presence on Mount Athos is first attested to in the eighth century. The mountain itself was consecrated to the Virgin Mary, based on the tradition that it was granted to her as a garden. Quote 2: Mount Athos has been a center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism and home to a large number of monasteries for many centuries. It is located on the peninsula with the same name in northern Greece, also known to Greeks and other Orthodox peoples as the Holy Mountain. Today there are 20 monasteries on Mount Athos: 17 Greek, 1 Russian, 1 Serbian (Hilandar Monastery), and 1 Bulgarian.
- ^ Michael Prokurat, Michael D. Peterson, Alexander Golitzin (6 April 2010). The A to Z of the Orthodox Church. Scarecrow Press. p. 28. ISBN 9781461664031.
Quote: founded the Serbian Monastery of Hilandar on Mt. Athos"
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Richard C. Frucht (22 December 2004). Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture - Volume 1. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 9781576078013.
Quote: Upon his abdication, Stefan became an Orthodox monk and moved to Mount Athos, in northern Greece, to join his son Rastko, who had joined the church a few years earlier and taken the name Sava. Together, they convinced the Orthodox patriarchate to approve a Serbian monastery on Athos. This monastery, Hilandar, became the cultural center of Serbia in the medieval period. By 1219, Sava was able to win the grant of an autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church, which firmly established Serbia as an Orthodox kingdom and gave it a stable cultural identity.
- ^ John Anthony McGuckin (13 December 2010). The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture. Wiley. p. 65. ISBN 9781444337310.
Quote: St Sava had already founded the Serbian monastery of Hilandar, on Mount Athos (1197), and in his own country he efficiently organized the infrastructure of the churches, crowning his brother as king in 1221 with a golden crown supplied for the occasion by Pope Honorius III.
- ^ Mitja Velikonja (2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. p. 45. ISBN 9781603447249.
Quote: Serbian Monastery of Hilandar"
- ^ Hilandar – The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity