Monastic gardens of Athos: the archetype of the garden in the genesis of Christian architecture
Authors:
- Yuriy Kryvoruchko,
- Bogusław Podhalański,
- Jan Rabiej
Abstract
The gardens of Athos are so unique that they lend credibility to the statement that their forms and purpose are a bridge between the Garden of Eden and the City of God. They are both exceedingly beautiful and extremely practical, providing monks and pilgrims with spiritual experiences and food while representing prayer and work in one. They are an answer to the call of ‘ora et labora’, which is in Latin but was known well before the split of the Church. This paper demonstrates how the diverse composition of the gardens of Athos serves the primary goal of the existence of Athos as a place where Orthodoxy unifies numerous countries of the world, from Romania to Egypt, in prayer and work. The gardens are blended into the landscape and their composition, which takes the form of contemplative fragments, follows the idea of Heavenly Jerusalem. It is not possible to investigate the gardens of Agion Oros solely through reason, just as it is impossible to rationally explore the qualities of Paradise.
- Record ID
- CUT60c4aa78c5a941a7ad572578e7728878
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- European Journal of Science and Theology, ISSN 1841-0464, e-ISSN 1842-8517, Bimonthly
- Issue year
- 2022
- Vol
- 18
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 145-165
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 164-165; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 21; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 18, No. 1
- Keywords in English
- garden, architecture, archetype, monastery, Athos
- ASJC Classification
- ; ; ;
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 140
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- Publication indicators
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT60c4aa78c5a941a7ad572578e7728878/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT60c4aa78c5a941a7ad572578e7728878
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