Tag: Monasteries
Raids in Ukraine: Secret service searches several monasteries
Status: 11/22/2022 3:55 p.m The Ukrainian secret service has searched monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate for “counterespionage”. Its leader had renounced Moscow – pro-Russian church…
Vacation in South Korea: Crash course in Buddhism
Be silent while eating. No alcohol. Neither walking nor slurping: In South Korea, many monasteries offer “temple stays”. That can be exhausting. Or educational. A visit. source site
Georgia: Here’s to peace
Georgia, the small country on the Caucasus, has a great culture: from wine to polyphonic singing to world heritage sites. But the greatest thing is the zest for life of…
the centuries glide over its monasteries clinging between sky and sea
Athos is the survival of a millennial past. Staying there shakes things up. This mountain, which culminates at 2,030 meters above the Aegean Sea, gave its name to a sacred…
Vacation in Austria: Spend the night in a monastery – travel
From the manager who needs time off to the student who is about to take her final exams: Holidays in a monastery can be enriching in many ways and in…
Würzburg: The oldest Franciscan monastery – Bavaria
It’s about ten minutes on foot from shopping in the Würzburg pedestrian zone to the confessional in the Franciscan monastery. Behind massive doors, a cloister opens up around the inner…
Where you come across magical places in Asia: monasteries, grottoes, graves
Whether Goa in India, Chang Mai in Thailand or Osaka in Japan – the journey to excursion destinations near these Asian cities is never far. The book “The 900 best…
District of Rosenheim: Niederaudorf wants its monastery back – Bavaria
When Günther Schmid talks about the Reisach Monastery, resentment and melancholy mix in his voice. The wiry man, who has known the monastery since childhood, actually no longer feels like…