Listed 16 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "LEMNOS (LIMNOS) Province NORTH AEGEAN" .
AGIOS EFSTRATIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
The ancient monuments that can still be found on the island of Agios
Eustratios are particularly limited due to the disastrous earthquake that devastated
the settlement in 1968. The most important and unique example of post-Byzantine
architecture is the church of St.
Basil (Agios Vasileios), which - according to the inscription plate - was
built in 1727 in the type of a domed basilica.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
ATSIKI (Small town) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
KALIOPI (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church was built in 1869.
KAMINIA (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
KARPASSI (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church of Aghios (Saint) Pachomios was built in 1901.
KONTOPOULI (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
KOTZINOS (Port) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church of Zoodochos Pigi which existed in the interior of the
castle was recently renovated. Since 1415 it is referred to, as Zoodochos Pigi
of Syngellos, an independent monastery. Ancient steps, quite deteriorated begin
from the ant-temple and lead to an underground vault. In this room exists a holy
water spring. In fact the spring is whatever remained of a water-supply construction
once used by the castle during sieges. There is a tale about this water: Once
a queen of the island tried to hide there when her enemies were running after
her. She is the one who confuses anybody who insists to count the steps. They
seem to be sometimes 84, sometimes 64, sometimes 57... and sometimes 51.
This text (extract) is cited June 2003 from the Lemnos
Provincial Government tourist pamphlet (1997).
MOUDROS (Small town) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church of the Taxiarches dates to the 14th century.
The church was built in 1904.
MYRINA (Small town) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church of Agia Triada (= The Holy Three) was built by the Metropolitan
Ioannikio around 1724 in the place of an older church. The church was destroyed
by the Turks in 1770 after the Turkish - Russian war and started to be re-built
with a slow pace from 1835 with donations from the local people and those that
had migrated to Egypt. The required wood came in 1865 from Odysso, a donation
from a Lemnian ship captain. The iconostasis is wooden-carved and full of byzantine
icons. On the right side of the iconostasis is a icon of Agia Triada. Most of
the icons are painted around the middle of the 18th century but older ones are
also found
REPANIDI (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church of St George (Agios Georgios) at Repanidi was built in the middle of the 19th century following the type of a three-aisled wooden roof basilica with influences from Neoclassicism. This specific type of church constitutes the most characteristic one in religious architecture of post-Byzantine years on Lemnos. Particularly remarkable is the wood carved templon of the church as well as the rich decoration of its walls with the afresco technique.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below.
ROMANO (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church was built in 1830.
ROUSSOPOULI (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The church was built in 1801.
SARDES (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
THANOS (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
The chapel
is located near the village of Zemata in the area of Thanos (about 4 km from Myrina).
Remnant of one of the numerous monasteries on the island, it is known from 1305,
a year in which it become part of the monastery of Agia Lavra, when some monks
from the island of Ag. Eustratios who belonged to the monastery settled in the
chapel in order to protect themselves from the Turkish raids. It is located at
a spectacular position in a hardly-reached cave, on the top of a hill among impressive
rocks, a location in which in Byzantine years there was probably an Early-Christian
church and hermits.
On the first Tuesday after Easter there is a service at the chapel.
On that day the icon of the Virgin (Panagia) Kakaviotissa -which for the rest
of the year is kept by a family at Kontia- is brought at the chapel. According
to tradition, the members of this family are the descendants of a laborer to whom
the last monk gave the icon in question.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
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