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Novo Hopovo Monastery was an important intellectual centre in Serbia back in the 15th century. It is one of the 16 surviving Orthodox monasteries built between the 15th and 18th centuries on the Fruška Gora mountain in Serbia (also known as the Serbian Mount Athos).

Novo Mesto Cathedral only became a cathedral in 2006, the year before it was known as the parish church of St. Nicholas. The building is first mentioned in 1428, the Gothic presbytery probably dates from the 16th century.

The cemetery has about 50 Jewish tombstones. The site was fenced by ESJF in December 2018.

Located in the heart of the village of Kitskani, the monastery is an outstanding Orthodox ecclesiastical monument. The monastery has four churches: Holy Ascension Cathedral (summer), Assumption Church (summer), St. Paul's Cathedral (summer), Nicholas (Seminary) Church, and the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Refectory) The monastery has hotels for pilgrims, a church museum, . a printing house and a painting studio, Similarly, the monastery’s jewel of archived documents, miniatures and old books dating from the 15th–19th centuries is the 69-metre-high, storied clock tower five panoramic views of the beautiful surroundings. The history of the monastery is closely linked to the monastery of Niemt, which was a large medieval center of Moldavian culture and education.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Given that the oldest preserved tombstone dates to the early 20th century, it can be gathered the cemetery was founded in that era. It cannot be found marked on old maps of the region.

The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. First, it appears on the 3rd military survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the 1880s. On June 25, 1941, the Wehrmacht troops occupied Novyy Vytkiv. In June 1942, 1,125 Jews remained. On October 22, 1942, 160 Jews were deported to Belzec death camp. The remnants were expelled in March 1943.

Built from 1145, is one of the first milestones of Gothic architecture. is its transept, each arm of which ends with an apse. This architectural choice is a short-lived experience of the builders of the first Gothic generation, imitated only for the south arm of the cathedral of Soissons.

The Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1898 and 1902, rebuilt in 1923. The architects of the synagogue are Karol Kozłowski and Maurycy Grodzieński. This Rundbogenstil brick building still serves as a synagogue.

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The Nun's Skete Church is an 18th-century chapel founded by Lady Smaranda, the wife of a Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia. The "sketes", were monastic communities living in semi-isolation in Eastern European countries.