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Holy Monastery of Agios Panteleimon
The monastery is built in a bay near the Xenophontos monastery, from the side of Siggitikos and is dedicated to its namesake Saint. It gives the impression of a small city with its many-stored buildings and the churches` tall cupolas. The Katholicon is built in the early 19th c. and its frescoes are typical of the russian art. The monastery has 15 chapels and 5 kellia, 2 of them at Karyes. The monastery also owns the Chromitsa metochion, the Bogoroditsa (or the Carpenter`s) Skete, the Nea Thebais or Gournoskete and Paleomonastiro.
In the 13th c. the monastery is burnt and rebuilt with the financial support of the emperor Andronicus II Paleologus and Serbian rulers. The monastery knows alternatively periods of prosperity and great misery. The monks are Greek and Russian, which outnumber the first after 1497. In the 18th c. the monastery is again in greek hands, only to fall back to the Russians in 1875.
In the monastery there are many portable icons, heirlooms and liturgical vestments. The library contains 1320 greek and 600 slavic manuscripts and over 20,000 greek and russian books.
The monastery in inhabited by a brotherhood of 40 monks.
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Wed 27 Apr 2005 00:14
comments (15 from 16)
A. Girao
#1
Wed 27 Apr 2005 00:17
Excellent view!!!
Regards
Zozo
#3
Wed 27 Apr 2005 00:57
excellent photo!! very nice reflex and place!
congrats
warm regards
miguel
#4
Wed 27 Apr 2005 01:17
Loads of History, nice capture.
Fernando Dinis
#5
Wed 27 Apr 2005 02:18
Beautiful composition and place, regards!
Nuno Milheiro
#6
Wed 27 Apr 2005 02:19
Excelent!
Very well composed and presented!
Regards
AmiLi
#7
Wed 27 Apr 2005 02:46
Wonderful view!!
silvia marmori
#8
Wed 27 Apr 2005 03:13
such nice image... excellent light, and good composed... and thanks for all the notes!
luquesio melo
#12
Wed 27 Apr 2005 16:09
Very interesting capture, thanks for your notes!
Alexandra P
#13
Wed 27 Apr 2005 16:30
Really vivid greens and reds! A great combination of wild nature with peace,
quietness and solitude!
keep up the good work!
alex
yves ralim
#14
Thu 28 Apr 2005 23:08
beautiful place and wonderful colours, excellent view
Another wonderful place here... Very well captured my friend!!
Congrats!