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The Monastery of Hagios Nicolaos Anapafsas at Meteora, near the village of Kastraki.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Meteora, Monasteries, Monastery of Hagios Nicolaos Anapafsas (Meteora), Monks, Natural environment, Religious practices, Thessaly

Costume of young monk inspired from Greek vases and architectural features of ancient temples.

Tags: Ancient temples, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Disguises, Human types, Italy, Masquerades, Monks, Parma, Religious practices, Shoes and footwear

Reception of a caravan comprised of officials on a pilgrimage at a convent in Jerusalem.

Tags: Baths, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Human types, Interiors, Israel, Jerusalem, Monasteries, Monks, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Map of Megalos Kalogeros islet.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Andros, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Greece, Islands, Maps, Megalos Kalogeros, Monks

Ottoman beggar monk.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Deer, Ethnic groups, Human types, Monks, Ottomans, Turkey

The Holy Admnistration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos.

Tags: Carpets, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Holy Administration (Iera Epistasia) of Mount Athos, Karyes, Macedonia, Monks, Mount Athos, Priests, Religious practices, Smoking, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Portrait of the abbot (hegoumenos) of Iviron monastery, Mount Athos.

Tags: Abbots/ Priors, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, History, Iviron Monastery, Macedonia, Monasteries, Monks, Mount Athos, Portraits, Priests

Remains of the portico of the reservoir of the Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) at the foot of Lycabettus hill. Dairy farm belonging to Arvanites. A woman is milking her goat to make kaymak. A man has come on horseback to buy dairy products. A monk of Hagioi Asomatoi monastery is going to town with his donkey which is carrrying olives and wine. Mount Hymettus and Kaisariani monastery in the background.

Interior view of the Roman amphitheatre of Pula. Due to an epidemics among the livestock of the region, the consumption of lamb and mutton has been forbidden. Shepherds of Slavic ethnicity have sought refuge within the amphitheatre, with their herds. A monk of the order of Saint Anthony, patron of animals according to several traditions, is giving his blessing and sprinkling the sheep with holy water; this terrifies the flock and causes the dogs to bark at the monk. On the right, some weapons, which Slav inhabitants of the area always carry with them, according to the author.

Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Jerusalem. An Orthodox priest.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Judaea, Monks, Palestine, Priests

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: An attempt to restore the upper part of this building and to explain the manner which the tripod was originally placed on it.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capuchin friars, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Gardens, Greece, Libraries, Monasteries, Monks, Priests

The monastery of Penteli.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Greece, Monastery of Penteli (Attica), Monks, Mount Penteli / Pentelikon, Priests, Religious practices

A. Adam von Schliben. B. Wolffgang Bachelbel. C. Salomon Schweigger. D. Bernhard von Herberstein and four Franciscan monks.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Diplomats, Ethnic groups, Franciscans, Germans, Istanbul, Italians, Monks, Priests, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Travel, Turkey

Orthodox monks.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Monks, Priests, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey

The choregic monument of Lysicrates, which served for some time as library of the Capuchin Order.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Human types, Libraries, Monks, Priests

Orthodox nun.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Istanbul, Monks, Rosaries, Thrace

Orthodox monk.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Istanbul, Monks, Thrace

Orthodox monk.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Istanbul, Monks, Thrace

The hegumenos of Preveli Monastery, Crete.

Tags: Abbots/ Priors, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cretans, Crete, Donkeys, Greece, Horses, Monks, Portraits, Preveli Monastery, Priests

The courtyard of the Upper (Rear) Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Preveli, Crete.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cretans, Crete, Greece, Monasteries, Monks, Preveli Monastery, Priests, Upper (Rear) Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Preveli), Views

The Upper (Rear) Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Preveli, Crete.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cretans, Crete, Greece, Monasteries, Monks, Preveli Monastery, Priests, Social sphere and everyday life, Upper (Rear) Monastery of St. John the Theologian (Preveli)

The bell tower at the Monastery of Profitis Ilias, Santorini.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Cyclades, Greece, Monasteries, Monastery of Profitis Ilias (Santorini), Monks, Natural environment, Priests, Religious practices, Santorini, Views

Monks of the Monastery of Profitis Ilias, Santorini.

Tags: Aegean islands, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclades, Greece, Human types, Interiors, Monasteries, Monastery of Profitis Ilias (Santorini), Monks, Priests, Religious practices, Santorini

The interior of the Apocalypse Cave, Patmos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Children, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, French, Greece, Monks, Patmos, Views

View of the Monastery of Saint John “the Theologian”, Patmos. The encounter of the author with a local monk, who inquired whether Voltaire was still alive.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, French, Greece, Mills, Monks, Patmos, Views

Trappist monk, drawing based on Le Zouave Trappiste painting by Horace Vernet.

Tags: Algeria, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horace Vernet, Monks, Portraits, Priests, Staouéli

Armenian monks.

Tags: Armenia, Armenians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Echmiadzin, Ethnic groups, Human types, Monastic life, Monks, Religious practices

Monk at the monastery of Hosios Loukas.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Hosios Loukas Monastery, Human types, Monks, Priests, Religious practices, Steiri

A Capuchin monk offers O'Hara flowers, as the party arrives at Messina.

Tags: Boats and ships, Italy, Messina / anc. Zancle, Modes of transport, Monks, Priests, Sicily, Southern Italy, Travel

Monks of the Capuchin order in Malta.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Malta, Monks, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Priests, Religious practices, Valletta

The crypt of the Capuchin Convent in Valetta, Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Capuchin Convent (Malta), Capuchin friars, Cemeteries, Crypts, Death, Malta, Monks, Priests, Valletta

Russian hermit monk. Born Doeskie (squirrel). View of Yaroslavl and Vologda. Branch of cedar tree.

Tags: Animals, Boats and ships, Monks, Plants, Religious practices, Russia, Vologda, Yaroslavl

Meteroa and Pindus (1825), by Louis Dupré.

Tags: Greece, Meteora, Monasteries, Monks, Mount Pindus, Mountains, Natural environment, Thessaly, Views

Ascetic monk from the monastery of Voulcano.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ithome, Messenia, Monasteries, Monastery of Voulcano (Messenia), Monastic life, Monks, Peloponnese, Religious practices

The Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in the court of the Capucine convent in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece, Monasteries, Monks

Interior of the court of a Greek monastery.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Monasteries, Monks, Priests, Religious practices

The Holy Community of Mount Athos.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Holy Community of Mount Athos, Karyes, Macedonia, Monks, Mount Athos, Priests

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