Sázava Monastery
Sázava Monastery () is a former Benedictine abbey and a monastery in Bohemia (Czech Republic), established by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia around 1032. It is situated some 30 km southeast of Prague, on the right bank of the eponymous Sázava (river), Sázava river, a right tributary of the Vltava. The town of Sázava (town), Sázava (Benešov District) grew around the monastery. The monastery is notable, long after its foundation by St Procopius of Sázava, for having followed the Byzantine Rite in the Church Slavonic language, Old Church Slavonic liturgical language in the 11th century. It was forcibly transferred to the Latin Church, Latin rite in 1097, but remained a monastery until its destruction during the Hussite Wars in 1421. It was again re-established as part of the re-catholization of Bohemia under History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867), Habsburg rule in 1664 and finally Suppression of monasteries, dissolved under the policy of Josephinism i ...
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Sázava Monastery, Aerial View Crop
Sázava may refer to places in the Czech Republic: *Sázava (river) *Sázava (town), a town in the Central Bohemian Region **Sázava Monastery in the town *Sázava (Ústí nad Orlicí District), a municipality and village in the Pardubice Region *Sázava (Žďár nad Sázavou District), a municipality and village in the Vysočina Region *Sázava, a village and part of Davle in the Central Bohemian Region *Sázava, a village and part of Nový Rychnov in the Vysočina Region See also

*Moravská Sázava, a river *Procopius of Sázava, Czech saint {{DEFAULTSORT:Sazava ...
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