Monastery of Stoudion
The Monastery of Stoudion or monastery of Stoudios was founded with Constantinople into 463 by the Studius consul who placed it under the term of Jean Baptiste the Precursor. It was located at the extreme West of the old city, not far from the Marmara Sea. Its monks are called " Studites" or " Stoudites".
The church Midsummer's Day Baptist, a vast building in the basilical plan, is today ruins some and it is used as mosque: it is the Imrahor Cami .
The monastery played a very important part in the collection of documents and the production of decorated manuscripts with elegance. Charlemagne, with its example, sought to equip the Occident with good workshops of copyists.
He also played a big role in the refutation of the iconoclasme, in particular under the higouménat of saint Theodore Studite. At that time, at the beginning of the 9th century, Stoudion counted nearly a hundred monks who slept not in cell but in dormitory.
The lifestyle of Stoudion became the model of many founded orthodoxe monasteries around the year millet: the Monastery of Large Laure of Athos and several among the first monasteries of Russia.
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