Balamand Monastery - Hallelujah - Lebanese Orthodox Church Hymn

Balamand Monastery - Hallelujah - Lebanese Orthodox Church Hymn

A Hymn from the Holy Orthodox Church of Antioch and the whole East,imagery from Balamand Monastery in Northern Lebanon.The monastery is located 275 meters above sea level on a plateau that falls heavily on three sides and is bounded on the southwest side of mountains rising further. The plateau in the north offer a view of the Mediterranean and the coastal road between Tripoli and Chekka.

The site of the monastery was formerly a monastery founded by Cistercian monks in 1157 and was known variously as Belmont, Bellimonte ultra Mare, and Bellus-Mons. This was the Cistercian monks' first overseas abbey, founded during the western European Crusades into the Holy Land. In the early part of the seventeenth century the monastery came under the authority of the local Orthodox Church. In recent times a theological faculty functioned within the monastery to educate new clergy until the formation, in 1971, of St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology which later became part of the University of Balamand in Tripoli.

Видео Balamand Monastery - Hallelujah - Lebanese Orthodox Church Hymn канала Bshara Shammas