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Religion
Armenian Church
Mar 10th
Armenia is a region in north-eastern Turkey and north-western Iran, and includes an independent commonwealth between the Black and the Caspian Seas. No one knows exactly when Christianity first arrived there. In 314 C.E. Tiridates, the king of the country, converted to Christianity. Armenia then became the first nation in which Christianity was the established or official religion. Armenian Christianity took distinctive form in the fifth century. At that time the Bible and many church writings were translated into Armenian. More >
Gothic Style
Mar 10th
The term Gothic was unknown to the architects of the Middle Ages who practiced the style. They called their idiom – marked by soaring walls with vast windows – the ‘French Style,’ for the country form which it sprang, through the midwifery of a Benedictine Abbot named Suger in the year 1144. That was when Suger unveiled the rebuilt abbey and church of St. Denis, outside Paris. More >
Sucevita Monastery, Romania
Mar 10th
Sucevita Monastery, one of the most magnificent religious buildings in Romania, is a monument to two 16th century local chiefs and the murderess Elizaveta, who poisoned her husband so that her sons could inherit the throne. All of these figures are featured in splendid frescoes that adorn the walls of the complex. The monastery church was built in 1584, the outer walls a little later. More >
Ethiopian and Separatist Churches
Mar 10th
Compared with activities in the Americas and Asia, European colonization of Africa began relatively late, in the 1870s. In the 19th century, North Africa, new religious movements inAmerican and European, especially British, Christians took missionary work very seriously. They also took their own superiority for granted, and they acted in ways that made their racist attitudes and presuppositions all too apparent. More >
Buseoksa Monastery – Temple of the Floating Stone, South Korea
Sep 28th
The Buseoksa Monastery was established by a monk, Uisang, on the orders of King Munmu of Silla in 676, but little remains of the original structure. According to legend, the monastery became known as the Temple of the Floating Stone because a daughter of a Tang Chinese official fell in love with Uisang while studying in China. She warned Uisang of a possible attack on his homeland, and he returned home to warn his countrymen. The girl wanted to join him and rushed to the shore, only to see his ship had set sail. She flung herself into the sea and drowned, and her sacrificial act caused her to be turned into a dragon. Once Uisang had averted the possible attack, he set to building a temple. More >
