Destinations Guide

PROTI (PMS), Small town, SERRES

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Places of worship (1)

Monasteries

Monastery of the Ascension of Christ at Proti

Tel: +30 23240 61249
  The Ascension Holy Monastery stands at 7 km from the village of Proti, at an altitude of 930 m on Pangeo Mountain, offering a panoramic view over the valley of Serres.
  Former metochi (dependency) of the Holy Monastery of Blessed Virgin Mary Ikosifinissa, it was reestablished in 1979 at the same location where in the 18th century stood the monks’ Monastery of the same name.
  The Monastery contributed a lot to the Christians of the region and that resulted in repeated devastation by the Turk and the Bulgarian invaders, the most severe having occurred in the years 1913, 1917 and 1944.
  The Katholikon (main church) of the Monastery is a rare cruciform Rotunda built according to the form of the Holy Ascension Monastery situated at the Mount of Olives in the Holy Land. The Monastery preserves the holy relics of the Saints I. Chrisostomos, Arsenios the Capadokos etc.
  In the Monastery there is a guest house operating exclusively for groups of tourists. Today (1997) the Monastery houses 20 Nuns occupied with hagiography, sacerdotal needlecraft, gold embroidered pieces, pyrography and ceroplasty.
  The feast day of the Monastery is the day of the Ascension, 40 days after Easter.
This text (extract) is cited September 2003 from the Prefecture of Serres tourist pamphlet.