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Hilandar Monastery

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Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Hilandar Monastery
Phone:
+30 2377 023494

Address:
Agio Oros 603 86, Greece

The Hilandar Monastery is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece. It was founded in 1198 by Archbishop of the Serbian Church Saint Sava and his father and founder of the Nemanjić dynasty Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, who upon relinquishing his crown, took monastic vows to become ordinary monk Symeon in Hilandar. The monastery represents a focal point of Serbian religious and secular culture, as well as the first Serbian university. It is ranked fourth in the Athonite hierarchy of 20 sovereign monasteries. The Mother of God through her Icon of the Three Hands , is considered the monastery's abbess.
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