Vatopedi Monastery

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Christian monastery Eastern Orthodox monastery monastic community

Vatopedi Monastery is one of the largest and most prominent Eastern Orthodox monastic communities on Mount Athos in Greece, renowned for its spiritual heritage, historic architecture, and rich collection of religious relics and manuscripts.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian monastery → Eastern Orthodox monastery → monastic community →
affiliation	Holy Community of Mount Athos →
country	Greece →
denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church →
followsCalendar	Julian calendar (Old Calendar) for liturgical purposes →
foundedBy	Athanasius of Athos (traditionally associated) → three noblemen from Adrianople (traditional founders) →
foundedInCentury	10th century →
genderRestriction	male-only monastic community →
governingChurch	Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople →
hasCollection	Byzantine icons → codices → imperial chrysobulls → liturgical vessels → manuscripts → religious relics → vestments →
hasFeature	chapels → fortified walls → katholikon (main church) → library → monastic cells → refectory → tower →
hasIcon	Panagia Antiphonitria → Panagia Esphagmeni → Panagia Paramythia → Panagia Vimatarissa →
hasRelic	Belt of the Theotokos (Holy Girdle of the Virgin Mary) → relics of various saints →
heritageStatus	part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Mount Athos →
knownFor	historic architecture → rich collection of religious relics → rich manuscript collection → spiritual heritage →
languageOfLiturgy	Greek →
locatedIn	Central Macedonia → Chalkidiki → Mount Athos →
locatedInBodyOfWaterVicinity	Aegean Sea →
locatedOn	eastern coast of the Athos peninsula →
monasticOrder	coenobitic (communal) monastery →
partOf	Mount Athos monastic state →
pilgrimageSite	yes →
primaryRite	Byzantine Rite →
rankWithinMountAthos	one of the largest monasteries on Mount Athos →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince	1988 →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mount Athos →	hasMonastery