monastery of Saint Naum
{{Short description|Macedonian Orthodox Monastery}}
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| order = Macedonian Orthodox
| established = 905
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| diocese = Diocese of Debar and Kičevo
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| founder = Saint Naum
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| location = Ohrid Municipality
| map_type = North Macedonia
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The Monastery of Saint Naum ({{langx|mk|Манастир „Свети Наум“}}) is a Macedonian Orthodox monastery. It is named after the medieval Bulgarian[https://books.google.com/books?id=YbS9QmwDC58C&dq=saint+naum+boris&pg=PA128 The early medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century, John Van Antwerp Fine, University of Michigan Press, 1991], {{ISBN|0-472-08149-7}}, p. 128. writer and enlightener Saint Naum who founded it.[http://www.ohrid.org.mk/eng/crkvi/sv_naum.htm ohrid.org.mk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225135825/http://www.ohrid.org.mk/eng/crkvi/sv_naum.htm |date=February 25, 2010 }} The monastery is situated in North Macedonia, along Lake Ohrid, {{convert|29|km|mi}} south of the city of Ohrid, within the boundary of the village of Ljubaništa.
The Lake Ohrid area, including St Naum, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in North Macedonia.[https://archive.today/20120320005500/http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2007/10/08/reportage-01 Southeast European Times]
History
The monastery was established in the Bulgarian Empire in 905{{cite book|last=Bechev|first=Dimitar|title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia|date=13 April 2009|page=159|isbn=9780810862951|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilGfCIF4Ao4C&pg=PA159 }} by St Naum of Ohrid himself. St Naum is also buried in the church.
Since the 16th century, a Greek school had functioned in the monastery.{{cite book|last=Skendi|first=Stavro|title=The Albanian national awakening, 1878-1912|year=1967|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/albaniannational00sken/page/17 17]|url=https://archive.org/details/albaniannational00sken|url-access=registration|quote=Greek schools are mentioned in 1723 in nearby Korce.}} The monastery had close ties with the printing house of Moscopole, a former prosperous Aromanian city now in Albania.{{Cite book|last=Mikropoulos|title=Elevating and Safeguarding Culture Using Tools of the Information Society: Dusty traces of the Muslim culture| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=optXTg3ovBYC&q=moschopolis |year=2008|publisher=Earthlab|page=315|isbn=978-960-233-187-3|first=Tassos A.}} The area where the monastery of St Naum{{cite journal|last=Elsie|first=Robert|year=2000|title=The Christian Saints of Albania|journal=Balkanistica |volume=13|publisher=American Association for South Slavic Studies|page=52|quote=The cult of Saint Naum spread in the first half of the 18th century with the flourishing of Voskopoja KO as a center of Orthodox culture and with the rise of the Archdiocese of Achrida (Ohrid). His fame extended from here southwards to Mount Athos and northwards up to Vienna. His image is to be seen in the frescoes of the churches of Voskopoja, Shipska KO and Vithkuq KO. The Bektashi also went on pilgrimage to the monastery of Saint Naum, believing their holy man Sari Saltik to be buried there. Saint Naum's original feast day was December 23, but in 1727 on the authority of the Archbishop of Achrida, it was changed to June 20 to make pilgrimages less strenuous in the continental climate of the interior of the Balkans.|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/modern_languages/BalkArticle2.html}} lies belonged to Albania from 1912 until June 28, 1925, when Zog of Albania ceded it to Yugoslavia as a result of negotiations between Albania and Yugoslavia and as a gesture of goodwill.{{cite book |title=Albania and King Zog: independence, republic and monarchy 1908-1939 |last=Pearson |first=Owen |year=2004 |publisher=IB Tauris |page=248 |isbn=9781845110130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_Sh3y9IMZAC&dq=Sh%C3%ABn+Naum&pg=PA248 |access-date=2010-05-30}}
In the arts
Rebecca West devoted a chapter of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon to her visit to Sveti Naum, which occurred in 1937.
Gallery
File:Svetinaum.jpg|Exterior of Saint Naum Monastery from Lake Ohrid File:Complex St. Naum 19.JPG|Lake Ohrid from the monastery File:St. Naum Monastery 51.JPG|A dome inside File:Sveti Naum, manastir, na razglednica.jpg|Postcard of Ohrid, Monastery of Saint Naum from 1934 |
References
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External links
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- [http://360macedonia.com/macedonia/en/vrtour.php?macedoniatown_ID=5 360macedonia.com Virtual Panoramas of St. Naum in Ohrid]
- [http://macedonia.for91days.com/the-waters-of-sveti-naum/ Saint Naum Photo Essay]
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Category:Macedonian Orthodox monasteries
Category:Christian monasteries established in the 10th century
Category:Eastern Orthodox monasteries in North Macedonia
Category:Byzantine church buildings in North Macedonia
Category:Medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church buildings
Category:Golden Age of Bulgaria
Category:Archbishopric of Ohrid
Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in the 900s