Reopening Turkey's Controversial Greek Orthodox Monastery | Atlas Obscura
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- The Halki Seminary in Heybeliada, Istanbul, was first established in 1844, and was one of the top institutions for theological education in the Greek Orthodox world. The Greek Orthodox seminary trained future parish leaders until 1971, when the Turkish authorities forcibly shuttered the monastery for almost 50 years. Today, under the leadership of chaplain Father Ioann, the monastery is preparing to reopen again, allowing visitors to marvel at its treasures inside, including a Bible written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, and Persian. The journey to its reopening, however, will not be smooth.
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Thank you Father Ioann for taking the time to speak so openly and lovingly about the history of your Seminary, its resources, and the importance of its mission today.
The range of the types of places you visit is simply phenomenal. Doll museums, philosophical gardens, sub-permafrost mines, one man buildings, monasteries ...
(and these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head)
#respect
Aw, thanks! We love exploring as many off-the-beaten-path destinations as we can!
What a beautiful place with a great history. Thank you Atlas Obscura. 😁
Beautiful place❤️ God bless these wonderful dedicated souls❣️
Fundamentalism is a loaded word. Seminary no matter of creed by default is a place of learning and discourse. Otherwise it is relegated to echochamber. I as a Muslim would like to see hagia Sophia either be reinstated as a church or a shared space between muslim and orthodox community. Unfortunately seldom modern politics ever leave anything untouched...from USA to Far east. The house of order / world order suffocate all.
Amen brother.
Muslims can go but it will be an Orthodox building
This is truly amazing! ☦️♥️ 🙏
what a wonderful and courageous project you are making. I hope that you will succed.
God bless. Lovely news!!
Hopefully I can visit this place once. I know there are many Turks who still support freedom of religion
As a Greek Orthodox I have serious doubts that this seminary will reopen, especially under the current Turkish president. I do not foresee it opening in the near future.
The goverment helps them to reopenate with its own money. Nobody has any problem with christians in the Turkey, you dont have to worry
You never know when God will bless one with a miracle, He's full of them.
They don't believe in change of mind. @@malibudolphin3109
Why does the video title say "Controversial" - it makes it sound like there is something controversial or wrong about the monastery.
There is something controversial: the seminary is designed to train Orthodox Christian clergy, however, it is located in a country that is reconnecting with its Islamic history, whose doctrines clash with the Orthodox. In other words, the Orthodox are a religious minority in a Muslim majority country that doesn't really want them around.
@@johnsantrizos7638 Even though the Orthodox were there a for a thousand years before the Turks came to Anatolia lmao
@@the.orthodox.photographer2272 This is very true. The AKP (Erdoğan's political party) seems not to want to recognize the Anatolian peninsula/Asia Minor as the place where Christianity really blossomed forth.
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You are full of prejudice, Erdogan might be Muslim, but he supports Christians in Turkey.
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@@johnsantrizos7638 Actually that's NOT why it was controversial. In banning these private institutes of higher education, the government was, in fact, cracking down on ISLAMIC schools, which were a much greater threat to the secular state. There is some anti-Greek and anti-Christian sentiment in Turkey, but Erdogan is actually pro Orthodox church because he knows they represent no threat to his power and bolster his claim to increasing de-secularistion under the guise of "religious freedom". I hate Erdogan and fundamentalism of all kinds, but you'll note that this school actually reopened under his administration.
Another amazing video
Thank you!
It's important that Christian understand bible and it's teaching. Thank you for this video
Beautiful place If females are allowed, I would love to visit this place one day. Much Love from Ethiopia 💚💛❤️ I hope and pray us orthodox around the world come come together and make our religion stronger than ever.
Love from ☦️🇲🇰
Might the Lord bless you despite challenges
I hope they book Batushka ( the real one, kristoph's ofc) as an act for their re-opening party!
Praise the lord Jesus Christ 🙏 and mother Mary
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I want to visit, but just the libraries and for about 2 years.. so I can read everything of importance. Doll museum?? ... dolls are creepy so no tanks.. lol
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Glory to god
Ooh come on :c
Constantinople will rise
how?
It has already risen by Turks.😎💪🇹🇷
that's what we get for helping you people. You will see Constantinople only in your dreams
@@ercanylmaz967 you anatolian turks are either persian-greek people or converted orthodox christian greeks...
@@MultiCaloka stop whining. Because one fool says something stupid, you decide to say something stupid too. Bunch of fools. Learn to live together if ypu and your culture want to be respected. Otherwise you show you learned shit about religion, history or culture.
"immune to fundamentalism" ... ugh sounds like modernism.
The EP is extremely liberal, so it wouldn't surprise me. It seems that the Patriarch of Constantinople is still under the Ottoman captivity.
you can be non-fundamentalist, and not a modernist.
@@eduardovalentin9416 This is true, but the term is a party word that usually signifies modernism.
Thank You!