02 — Hilandar and Athos

Sava’s Athonite decade: how he drew his abdicated father onto the Holy Mountain, how together they refounded the ruined monastery of Hilandar as a Serbian house with imperial charters, and how the typika Sava wrote there carried the cenobitic Athonite pattern — and a whole monastic culture — back into Serbia.

Tradition: Serbian Orthodox

Files

File	Description
founding-hilandar.md	Nemanja’s abdication and arrival on Athos as the monk Symeon; the refounding of Hilandar c. 1198; the chrysobull of Alexios III and the founding charters
the-typikon-and-the-monastic-vision.md	The Karyes, Hilandar, and Studenica typika; the Athonite formation Sava brought to Serbia

See Also

• 01 — Foundations — the flight to Athos that made Hilandar possible
• 03 — Return to Serbia — Sava’s departure from Athos with his father’s relics
• 05 — Lawgiver and Educator — the legal and educational work that grew from the Athonite foundation