Place Institution Christianity
Great Lavra
Monasterium Maximae Laurae la
1st monastery of Mount Athos, Greece
- Dated from 10th century CE
- Also called Megisti Lavra, Monastery of Great Lavra
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
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Athanasius the AthoniteNamed as founder Byzantine monk
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 10th century CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Great Lavra, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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9.9 km awayPhilotheou Monastery
monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
12 km awayIviron Monastery
Eastern Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
15 km awayProtaton
church in Karyes, Mount Athos -
15 km awayXeropotamou Monastery
Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
16 km awaymonastic community of Mount Athos
community of monks on the Mount Athos peninsula - autonomous part of the Greek state -
21 km awayDochiariou monastery
monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
22 km awayVatopedi Monastery
monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
24 km awayZografou Monastery
monastery on Mount Athos, Greece
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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