Criterion (vi): Rila Monastery is considered a symbol of the 19th Century Bulgarian Renaissance which imparted Slavic values upon Rila in trying to reestablish an uninterrupted historic continuity.

Egypt has ordered the closure of the world's oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery, much to the fury of ...

Hearst bought the Spanish monastery in 1931 and had it dismantled ... Stanford was one of the fabled 19th century "Big Four" monopolists of California and was a president and director of the ...

As in Kraków, the area was called Bielany. And, as was the fate of other monasteries in the 19th century, mainly as a result of repressions after the January Uprising, the monastery began to decline; ...

VENDREDI - Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery, SAMDI - View of Neva River and DIMANCHE - Mariniiskaya Hospital, further mounted on later walnut panels, the plaques - 4.2 x 7.6cm, mid-19th century ...