kalpak2007.08.02 [22:30]
To hrisofor and vpopovic...
It is true that the people are missing. But from very specific reasons (see one of my previous photos) I am trying to post mostly pictures of architecture and art (frescoes, icons, etc.). Otherwise, there are nuns in the monastery and one of the highest authorities in the contemporary Macedonian orthodoxy - father Stefan Sandzakovski - serves as a priest in the monasterial church, which is full with believers every Sunday all over the year. This monastery has also a specific mixed church choir (consisted of men and women) - it sings church songs (hymns) based on Byzantine tradition but in a specific local manner (there is a CD with the hymns singed by this choir). In one word - this monastery is a feast of orthodoxy indeed. And, of course, it would be better to show some of the atmosphere there, but I would not experiment with that... there are people who knows where orthodoxy must be... but, fortunately, there are others who knows where orthodoxy is.
