Monastery of Stoudios

The studio monastery in Constantinople Opel, also called Stoudionkloster or studio monastery, was one of the most important monasteries in the Byzantine Empire.

History

The monastery already existed in the year 454, and was a founding of the East Roman consul Studios. It was handed over to the Akoimeten and dedicated to John the Baptist. The up to 700 monks of the monastery were called Studio Studite.

However, importance was the monastery until 250 years later, when monks were expelled from Sakudion in Bursa shortly after 798 of Saracens and took refuge in the studio monastery. These monks ( including especially Theodore the Studite ) were Bilderstreit decisive representative of the veneration of images and made her monastic rule, the traditions of Palestine with those of Constantinople joined the monastery as a model for many Byzantine monasteries, but also beyond that: On Mount Athos, but since the Patriarch Alexius I Studite (1025-1043) in Russia, took the monastic rule of the monastery Studio widespread. In 1900 the Ukrainian Catholic Studitenorden Founded at Lemberg, who refers to the monastic rule of the studio monastery.

In addition to the Patriarch Alexius I Studite came the Patriarch Antonios III. Studite ( 974-980 ) from the monastery. Isaac Comnenus, who later became Emperor Isaac I, was brought here by order of the Emperor Basil II; he and the Emperor Michael VII retired after her abdication in 1059 or 1078 back here.

The importance of the monastery is also based on his writing school ( which still existed in 1350 ) and the library. Many liturgical seals and dogmatic works were created in the studio monastery.

1204, the monastery was destroyed by the crusaders in the conquest of Constantinople and the establishment of the Latin Empire. 1293 was rebuilt, followed by a second flowering in the final stages of the Byzantine Empire. 1555, one hundred years after the end of the Empire, the studio monastery was disbanded by the Ottomans.

The monastery church was converted into a mosque İmrahor Camii.