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	Valaam Monastery - OrthodoxWiki
		Valaam Monastery is a monastery of the Church of Russia located in Karelia in northwestern Russia on the island of Valaam in Lake Ladoga.
		The monastery was an outpost of evangelism in the north of Russia.
		In 1793, the abbot of Valaam Monastery, Nazarius, was tasked by Catherine II with recruiting missionaries for the Russian colony in Alaska.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Valaam_Monastery (646 words)

	Valaam Monastery
		The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery was founded in the 10th century on Valaam, the largest island in Lake Ladoga, as a western outpost against the heathen.
		The monastery was desolate between 1611 and 1715 after another attack, the buildings being burnt to the ground and the Karelian border between Russia and Sweden being drawn through the Lake.
		In the 18th century the monastery was magnificently restored, and in 1812 it came under the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/v/va/valaam_monastery.html (345 words)

	Nordic Travel. Karelia :: Sights and Maps - Valaam
		Valaam Archipelago is one of the most interesting cultural, historical and nature attractions in the North of Russia.
		Cathedral of the Transfiguration and the Monastery manor.
		At the beginning of the 20th century the Valaam Monastery became one of the wealthiest Russian Monasteries, comprising a kind of a small state with 13 smaller monasteries under control.
	nordictravel.ru /page/valaam.html (642 words)

	Valaam Monastery \| MP3Travel
		The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery, is a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Karelia, which is a part of the territory fought over by the Soviet Union and Finland before the end of World War II.
		Whatever the truth may be, the Valaam monastery was a western outpost of Eastern Orthodoxy against the heathens and, later, against the Catholic Christianity of Tavastia, Savonia and Swedish Karelia.
		In the eighteenth century the monastery was magnificently restored, and in 1812 it came under the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland.
	mp3travel.com /node/446 (427 words)

	Cale Miniatures: Russian Church Choir Music
		Male Kliros Choir of the Podvorie of Valaam Monastery in St. Petersburg (21 tracks) Chants of the Valaam Monastery in Lake Ladoga (Russia) famous for its strict Athonite Rule and a peculiar chant based on the Byzantine tradition.
		Male Kliros Choir of the Podvorie of Valaam Monastery in St. Petersburg (22 tracks) Chants of the Valaam Monastery in Lake Ladoga (Russia) famous for its strict Athonite Rule and a peculiar chant based on the Byzantine tradition.
		Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God (15 tracks) Selected chants of the Russian Orthodox Church from the Sviato-Pokrovsky (Protection of the Mother of God) Monastery (Pskov region).
	www.caleminiatures.com /religious/cd.html (384 words)

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		Valaam is the largest and finest island of the lake Ladoga.
		When Soviet power was established in Karelia in 1940 the Valaam monastery was closed, From december 1939 to february 1940 the community, all to the monk evacuated with church values to Finland where they founded the New Valaam monastery (Papinniemi).
		From the old times the Valaam monastery was distinguished for its peculiar ascetism and austerity of god-service.
	www.valaam.spb.ru /monastery.html (154 words)

	The Monastery of St. John of San Francisco
		The Monastery Guesthouse is available for individual and group pilgrimages.
		The Holy Monastery of Saint John of San Francisco, now located in Manton, California, is under the omophorion of His Grace the Right Reverend BENJAMIN, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco and the West of the Orthodox Church in America.
		The Brotherhood strives to live a traditional monastic life informed by the practice of Valaam Monastery and the Holy Mountain.
	www.monasteryofstjohn.org (526 words)

	Karelia
		The monastery on the island Valaam can be reached from Sortavala.
		Besides the monastery, small chapels can be found on the different islands belonging to Valaam.
		Valaam is well visited, but there are plenty of quite places left.
	homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /Frank.Braechter/English/Travel/Karelia (1117 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery is a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Karelia, which is a part of the territory fought over by the Soviet Union and Finland before the end of World War II.
		Whatever the truth may be, the Valaam monastery was a western outpost of Eastern Orthodoxy against the heathens and, later, against the Catholic Christianity of Tavastia, Savonia and (Swedish) Karelia.
		The monastery was desolate between 1611 and 1715 after another attack, the buildings being burnt to the ground and the Karelian border between Russia and Sweden being drawn through Lake Ladoga.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Valaam_Monastery (494 words)

	Valaam Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery is a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Karelia, which is a part of the territory fought over by the Soviet Union and Finland before the end of World War II.
		The monastery was desolate between 1611 and 1715 after another attack, the buildings being burnt to the ground and the Karelian border between Russia and Sweden being drawn through lake Ladoga.
		In the 18th century the monastery was magnificently restored, and in 1812 it came under the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valaam_Monastery (507 words)

	Valaam - Круизная Компания «ВодоходЪ» - речные круизы по России, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The monastery founded in the 10th century is stauropegial, which means that it is directly guided by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (not by a local bishop).
		Valaam separated by nature from secular settlements is an ideal place for monastic life and soltitude, as if especially destined to glorify God.
		According to tradition, the monastery was established in 992 by the Greek monks Sergius and Herman (canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church) who came here seeking soltitude for their ascetic endeavours.
	vodohod.com /eng/russia/map/valaam.htm (843 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| The history of Valaam monastery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Any one, who came to the island, couldn’t leave it yet: the monastery, which was founded in XVI century was used as a place of deportation of ecclesiastics (leaving the monastery was prohibited till the beginning of XX century).
		The archipelago then belonged to Finland and the monastery was the church of religious minority (the main part of the Finnish churches is Lutheran).
		The buildings of the monastery were not considered to be monuments: the commission of architects didn’t regard the complex of Valaam buildings as valuable one.
	www.ticrk.ru /en/gallery.php?docId=9539 (1049 words)

	Fourth way and sufism - Valaam Monastery, Orthodox Tradition & Symbolism
		The Valaam is situated on lake Ladoga on a group of appr.
		Valaam services are very long; the monastic rules are adopted from the Sarov Monastery and very strict.
		The monastery has a matter to be solved with the civilians living on the main island.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /sufi/gvalaam.html (1522 words)

	Wetlands Project Promises Clean Water For Historic Valaam Island
		The monastery culture lapsed into obscurity again when the area was incorporated into Lutheran Finland at the end of the 19th century, but nonetheless the construction of the 13th monastery was completed in 1917.
		Valaam and its monasteries have now become a popular tourist destination and its permanent population of 500 swells during the summer, with an influx of children, tourists and pilgrims.
		Valaam is not the only place in Russia with such problems, but the contrast between the beauty of the stone churches and the terrible state of the toilet facilities makes the problem all the more striking.
	www.isar.org /pubs/ST/valaam47.html (1378 words)

	Valaam Monastery
		The Valamo Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam (Finnish: Valamo), the largest in Lake Ladoga, in the 10th century as a Northwestern outpost against the Heathen.
		The monastery was magnificently restored in the 18th century.
		The Winter War (during the Second World War) led to the evacuation of the monastery in 1940, but it was able to resume its normal life at its present site in Heinävesi (New Valaam) in Finland later the same year.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Valamo_Monastery.html (217 words)

	Travel russia. Cities of Russia. Karelia Region: Valaam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valaam Archipelago is one of the most interesting cultural, historical and nature attractions in the North of Russia.
		The ancient Valaam Monastery is situated here, first mentions about which date back to the 10th Century.
		At the beginning of the 20th century the Valaam Monastery became one of the wealthiest Russian Monasteries, comprising a kind of a small state with 13 smaller monasteries under control.
	traveltorussia.biz /cities/karelia/highlights/valaam.html (642 words)

	14th Century Cross With a Particle of Holy Relics Brought to St Petersburg
		In September, on the initiative of the hegumen of the Valaam Monastery, Archimandrite Pancratius, the cross was sent to the Moscow-based burn center, which caters to children who suffered during the terrorist attack in the north Ossetian town of Beslan.
		In the morning the shrine was met at Moskovsky railroad station by brethren of the Valaam Monastery.
		Then the reliquary was solemnly taken to the town house of the Valaam Monastery, the church of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God, where it was met by the house hegumen, Archimandrite Pancratius, with brethren, congregation members, and believers of the city.
	nyjtimes.com /Stories/2005/14thCenturyCross-RelicsBrought.htm (518 words)

	[Russia 1: orthodoxy] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The monastery suffered from fires, epidemics and other calamities.Yet, through monks' prayers, toils of wise hegumens and common work, the candle of Orthodoxy lit up on the Valaam again and again spiritualizing stern rocks and forests.
		He shored the island on a stormy night when nobody in the monastery awaited the arrival of the tsar and, met by nobody, like an ordinary pilgrim, humbly waited at the door for the church to be opened.
		The heart of the monastery ensemble is the grand Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour with belfry.
	www.russia-hc.ru /eng/religion/monast/valaam_1.cfm (945 words)

	The Valaam monastery :: Today
		Restoring the monastery was difficult at first the brothers had to stay in the public hotel of Valaam locality, conducting long divine services in the lower church of the Saviour-Transfiguration Cathedral, whose darkened and wet walls reminded of decades of abomination of desolation, having reigned in this holy place.
		Behind the monastery walls, music thundered, yelling and obscene language could be heard during, but prayer-according to, the first brothers’ recollections, in spite of the difficult conditions of life, those initial years of revival were the most blessed with a for them.
		Now young people with a difficult life quite often come to the monastery to take their first steps in the Church, so, currently, the primary task is to bring the young brothers up in the spirit of the gospel commandments, the holy fathers’ spiritual heritage and monastic and common church traditions.
	light.valaam.lgg.ru /en/today (1367 words)

	Valaam Monastery - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Image:Valaam.jpg The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery is the Orthodox monastery in Karelia, which used to be a part of territory contested between the Soviet Union and Finland.
		Image:New Valamo Monastery main church.jpg Due to the Winter War, the monastery was again evacuated in 1940, when 150 monks settled in HeinГ¤vesi in Finland.
		Since the original Valaam Monastery was restored in 1989, it has been enjoying the personal patronage of Patriarch Alexey II, who frequented the cloiser when a child.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Valaam_Monastery (499 words)

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		According to ancient tradition, the islands of Valaam in Lake Ladoga in the Novgorod region of northern Russia were evangelized by the Apostle Andrew, who blessed the islands and placed a cross on a cliff of the main island.
		Soon after the death of the founders, the monastery at Valaam was subjected to the raids of local pagan nomads, and the monks took away the relics of the Saints to preserve them.
		We agreed to come to Valaam together." The Abbot blessed the pannikhida to be served for the repose of the Schema-monk Gregory and all lying in the monastery cemetery, and everyone praised God Who is wondrous in His saints.
	www.angelfire.com /planet/citeaux/valaam/sergius_herman.html (2086 words)

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		In the early history of Valamo it was a small and modest monastery, but at the end of the Middle Age it became more prosperous and bigger and in the 18th century it was one of the richest and biggest monasteries in Russia.
		In 1760 the monastery was divided to two parts; The monastery of the Holy trinity became the centre of Olonets Diocese and the church became the cathedral.
		The flourish time of the monastery was in the 16th century, when Filip became the leader of the monastery.
	www.monasterytours.com /lisaa_eng.html (3467 words)

	9612c (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like Venerable Seraphim, the Valaam ascetic was distinguished by an exceptional and penetrating knowledge of the spirit and letter of Sacred Scripture and the works of the holy fathers and teachers of the Church.
		After a fifteen-year stay by Venerable Herman on Valaam, the Lord summoned the humble monk to the apostolic ministry and sent him to preach the Gospel and to baptize the pagans of the sparsely inhabited and harsh territory of Alaska and the islands of North America adjoining it.
		Archimandrite Joasaph (Bolotov), a monk of Valaam Monastery, was appointed the director of the Mission.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/Saints/e_9612c.HTM (1033 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| The ensemble of Valaam monastery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In summer the buildings of the monastery seem to be swimming in the green leaves of the gardens.
		The central farmland of the monastery is situated on a high hill and looks like a single ensemble.
		After the revival of the monastery in the beginning of XVIII century a wooden church of Savoir and Transfiguration was build at this place.
	ticrk.ru /en/gallery.php?docId=9540 (571 words)

	St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Valaam Ensemble is a group of five male singers from the Valaam Monastery in Russia.
		During the Soviet period, the monastery was expropriated by the government and used as an internment facility for citizens.
		Valaam, for many centuries, was the spiritual center of Russian Orthodoxy and known in Russia as the Northern Athos.
	www.gosaintanna.org /valaam.asp (632 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - Arts + Features - valaam: centuries of rest for the weary
		Valaam is the largest of fifty islands comprising the eponymous archipelago, measuring 28 square kilometers.
		The monastery eventually became the outpost for territory dominated by Novgorod, and was caught up in the centuries-long struggle between Slavs and Swedes for control of the lucrative trade route connecting the Scandinavian north and Byzantium.
		The monastery was re-inaugurated by the Russian Orthodox Church in a mass celebrated by Patriarch Alexy II.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=7646 (1358 words)

	VALAAM
		In addition to the main Transfiguration Monastery, there had been many sketes and hermitages, with their churches and chapels, some of which have been rebuilt, or are in the process of being rebuilt, although most of the hermitages and small chapels no longer exist.
		Consequently, unlike most Russian monasteries, Valaam was neither destroyed nor closed, and it remained a living oasis of Holy Russia between 1917 and 1940.
		During the Soviet period the monastery buildings were used as a naval school and then as a home for the disabled --- the first secular residents of the island.
	www.firebirdvideos.com /beautifulrussia/valaam.htm (1121 words)

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