Hilandar Monastery

thumb|right|Hilandar Monastery Hilandar Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. Quotes about Hilandar Monastery With the status of an imperial lavra, Hilandar – independent and wealthy – was Serbia’s best diplomatic ‘envoy’ in Byzantium. Moreover, without the mediating agency of Hilandar, medieval Serbia would not have embraced Byzantine culture and civilization and adopted its ancient heritage so comprehensively. Everything that was best in Serbia, its ecclesiastical, political, and cultural elite, all passed through Hilandar, whose radiance cast its light and marked out the country – economically, politically, and culturally – as one of the great powers of medieval Europe. V. Janković, ‘The Serbian Tradition on Mount Athos’, in G. Speake and K. Ware (eds), Mount Athos: Microcosm of the Christian East (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), p. 85. External links Official website (in Serbian) Category:Monasticism Category:Serbia Category:Christianity Category:Mount Athos