Skit (building)


Skit (from Coptic: ϣ (ϩ) - "road", went to Greek as σκήτη - skete or in modern Greek pronunciation: skiti) - isolated building, hermitage for monks, wishing to lead stricter than monastic life . In other words, the Egyptian cradle of monastic life was also described - Wadi an-Natrun.

Some monks, in addition to mortifying themselves, did not dwell in the skilful but in caves or huts in the forest.

Normally larger monasteries had their own skates, for example, the. Jerzy on the Kozacki Mogily, Ławra Peczerska - skit Teofania. There were also independent skits, the most famous being Skit Maniawski.

In contemporary Poland the only skit is the skit of Saint Anthony and Theodosius Pieczerski in Odrynki-Kudak.

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