Are Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada and Süreyya Opera House both Greek Orthodox monasteries?
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Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada The Monastery of the Transfiguration, known locally as Hristo [Christ] Monastery, is a prominent Greek Orthodox monastery that has served the Greek Orthodox community of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) since the time of the Byzantine Empire. The monastery is located on the island of Kınalıada, one of the Prince Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It is situated on one of the highest peaks on the island called Hristo Peak (93 meters), which is named after the Monastery. The Monastery is especially known as a destination for exiled Byzantine Emperors in the 11th century.
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Süreyya Opera House Süreyya Opera House, also called Süreyya Cultural Center (Turkish: "Süreyya Operası or Süreyya Kültür Merkezi" ), is an opera hall located in Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. The building is designed by Armenian architect Kegam Kavafyan by order of a Deputy for Istanbul Süreyya İlmen, it was originally established in 1927 as the first musical theatre on the Anatolian part of Istanbul. However, due to lack of appropriate facilities and equipment in the theatre, operettas were never staged. The venue was rather used as a movie theatre until the building underwent a functional restoration and reopened as an opera house by the end of 2007.
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Priory of Santa Maria del Vilar The Priory of Santa Maria del Vilar at Villelongue-dels-Monts in the department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, France, houses the Romanian Orthodox Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe.
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Stavrovouni Monastery Stavrovouni Monastery (Greek: Ιερά Μονή Σταυροβουνίου ) is a Greek Orthodox monastery which stands on the top of a hill called Stavrovouni (Greek: Σταυροβούνι) in Cyprus; it is sometimes simply known as Stavrovouni. The monastery is one of the few places where one can see a piece of the Holy Cross. Stavrovouni Monastery was founded by Saint Helena (Saint Constantine's mother) in around 327–329 AD and therefore it is one of the oldest monasteries in the world.
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South Sinai Governorate South Sinai Governorate (Egyptian Arabic: محافظة جنوب سيناء‎ ‎ "Muḥāfẓet Ganūb Sīnāʾ ") is the least populated governorate of Egypt. It is located in the east of the country, encompassing the southern half of the Sinai Peninsula. Saint Catherine's Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox Church monastery and UNESCO World Heritage site of world renown, is located in central part of the governorate.
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Saint George Kyparissiotes Monastery Saint George Kyparissiotes (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος ο Κυπαρισσιώτης ; Turkish: "Aziz Yorgi Kilisesi, Aya Yorgi Kilisesi" ), is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery near modern Tirilye in Bursa Province Turkey (medieval Trigleia in Bithynia).
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Greek (opera) Greek is an opera in two acts composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage to a libretto adapted by Turnage and Jonathan Moore from Steven Berkoff's 1980 verse play "Greek". The play and the opera are a re-telling of Sophocles's Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" with the setting changed to the East End of London in the 1980s. The opera was first performed on 17 June 1988 in the Carl-Orff-Saal of the Gasteig, Munich, in a co-production by the Munich Biennale, the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC.
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Otkhta Otkhta (Georgian: ოთხთა , Turkish: "Dörtkilise") is a 10th-century Georgian monastery which was built in 961–965 by Davit Kurapalat and renewed in 978–1001. Georgian monastery and cathedral church located in Dörtkilise, the town of Yusufeli, Artvin Province, Turkey.
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Holy Transfiguration Church, Kėdainiai Holy Transfiguration Church is an Eastern Orthodox church in Kėdainiai.
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Achi Monastery The Achi Monastery of St. George (Georgian: აჭის წმ. გიორგის სახელობის მონასტერი ) is a medieval Georgian Orthodox church near the village of Achi in Georgia's southwestern region of Guria, 9 km south of the town of Ozurgeti.
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Church of the Transfiguration (Zaymo-Obryv) The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (Russian: Церковь Спаса Преображения ) ― is a Russian Orthodox church in the village of Zaymo-Obryv, Azovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia. It belongs to the Diocese of Rostov and Novocherkassk of Moscow Patriarchate and was built in 1910. It is also an object of cultural heritage of Russia.
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Sanaksar Monastery The Sanaksar monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God is located in the Russian Federation, in the Temnikov district of Republic Mordovia.
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List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries This is a list of Eastern Orthodox monasteries that are individually notable.
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Kanalon Monastery The Kanalon Monastery (Greek: Ιερά Σταυροπηγιακή Μονή των Κανάλων , "Iera Stavropigiaki Moni ton Kanalon") is a Greek Orthodox convent in the north-east of the Greek region of Thessaly. Beside the monasteries
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Mathia, Messenia Mathia (Greek: Μαθία , before 1927: Δράγκα - "Dragka") is a small village located near the top of the Mount Lycodimos. It is part of the municipal unit of Petalidi, in Messenia, Greece, 7 kilometres from the coastline. Under Ottoman occupation, it was referred to as "Draga". Pirates had destroyed its original location. In the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the legendary Captain Davis Triantafillopoulos and his heroic men destroyed the Turkish army. His monument stands in the village's entrance, as a reminder to the new generations.
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Danilov Monastery Danilov Monastery, in full Svyato-Danilov Monastery or Holy Danilov Monastery (Данилов монастырь, Свято-Данилов монастырь in Russian), is a monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia. Since 1983, it has functioned as the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox church and the official residence of the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'.
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Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (Syriac: ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܙܟܝ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܥܝܘܐܨ‎ , Arabic: إغناطيوس زكا الأول عيواص‎ ‎ , "Ignatios Zakkà ‘Īwāṣ ", born Sanharib Iwas, 21 April 1931 – 21 March 2014) was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's Patriarchal Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the head of the church, Mor Severios adopted the name Ignatius.
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Deir el-Muharraq Deir el-Muharraq (Arabic: الدير المحرق‎ ‎ , "ad-Dayr al-Muḥarraq "), is also known as the Muharraq Monastery, Burned Monastery, Virgin Mary monastery and Mount Koskam Monastery, is a monastic complex of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria in Egypt. It is one of the oldest still operational monasteries in the world.
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Avşa Avşa Island (Turkish: Avşa Adası ) or Türkeli is a Turkish island in the southern Sea of Marmara with an area of about 14 mi2 . It was the classical and Byzantine Aphousia (Greek: Αφουσία ) or Ophiousa (Οφιούσα) and was a place of exile during the Byzantine period.
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Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyina Street The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (Russian: Церковь Спаса Преображения на Ильине улице ) is a former Russian Orthodox Church that stands on Ilyina (Elijah) Street in Veliky Novgorod just east of the Marketplace. The current building was built in 1374 and frescoed by Theophanes the Greek (Feofan Grek or Феофан Грек in Russian) in 1378. Substantial portions of those frescoes still remain, including the Christ Pantocrator in the dome, a number of saints inside the south entrance, and The Old Testament Trinity in the western vestry, as well as others. The current building is now a museum, part of the Novgorod State Museum-Preserve.
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Jvari (monastery) Jvari Monastery (Georgian: ჯვრის მონასტერი ) is a sixth century Georgian Orthodox monastery near Mtskheta, eastern Georgia. Along with other historic structures of Mtskheta, it is listed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
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Daphni Monastery Daphni or Dafni (Modern Greek: Δαφνί; Katharevousa: Δαφνίον, "Daphnion") is an eleventh-century Byzantine monastery 11 km northwest of central Athens in the suburb of Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue (GR-8A). It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis. The forest covers about , and surrounds a laurel grove. "Daphni" is the modern Greek name that means "laurel grove", derived from Daphneion (Lauretum).