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As St. Savas’ monastery of hermitages grew, a need was recognized for organizing the religious services of the community. Within the community, practices and customs used by the [[monasticism|monastic]] communities in Palestine, Egypt, and Anatolia, as well as the [[cathedral]] services in Jerusalem, were assembled into the Typikon of the ‘‘Church Service of the Holy Lavra at Jerusalem of our God-bearing Father St. Savas’’.
This original ''Typikon of St. Sava'' quickly became a reference for monastic services in the Orthodox Church. It was expanded during the seventh and eighth centuries and later synthesized with Palestinian and Constantinopolitan usages. The revised Typikon of St. Savas was widely adopted and, by the fifteenth century, had replaced the typikons of the Cathedral Office and the [[Studion Monastery ]] of Constantinople. In 1545, it became the first printed typikon.
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