Listed 40 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "KARDITSA Prefecture THESSALIA" .
ANTHOCHORI (Village) KARDITSA
KALOGRIANA (Village) KARDITSA
NEOCHORI (Village) NEVROPOLI AGRAFA
There are frescoes dating to the 16th and 17th century.
PETROCHORI (Village) KARDITSA
MESSENIKOLAS (Village) KARDITSA
It dates back to 1647 and is decorated with murals created by the monk Samuel.
METAMORFOSSI (Village) KARDITSA
(The Transfiguration of the Saviour)
DRAKOTRIPA (Village) KARDITSA
This monastery is one of the most important monuments on Agrafa Mountain and is located on an 800 m. altitude.
KARITSA (Village) KARDITSA
Tel: +30 24410 94747
The Monastery has been erected on a rocky crag of 1.400m height.
The monument gives the impression that it floats in the air. It consists of two
churches, those of "The Ascension of Christ Sotir" and the church of Virgin, the
cells on the upper floor and subsidiary rooms in the basement.
The monastery was built in 1529. The church of the "Ascension" is
a single - nave church with narthex adorned in 1654, while the one of Virgin in
1666.
The monastery is being restored and the frescoes conserved at the
moment.
MONI KORONIS (Monastery) KARDITSA
Tel: +30 24410 95214, 22250
Fax: +30 24410 22251
The Holy
Monastery of Korona was built in a rather high place, 1.150m, between the
communities Moschato and Mesenicola. It consists of the church and cells.
The church, honoured to the "Birth of Virgin", is in the type of
cross-in-square, enlarged into a trinconch by apses added to the cross arms (the
type of Mount Athos), with narthex and parekklision in the West Side, honoured
to Saint John Prodromos. The frescoes date to 1587and follow the Cretan style.
The monastery was of great importance for the Agrapha area during the period of
Turkish occupation.
Part of frescoes have been conserved as well as the building itself
(part of if).
MONI PETRAS (Monastery) KARDITSA
Tel: +30 24410 94605, 94633
The Monastery
of Petra is situated in the area called "Petra" of the Community "Kataphygi",
South - West of the prefecture Karditsas. What has remained from the monastery
are the church and part of the cells.
The church, honoured to "Koimisis of Virgin", is in the cross - in
- square with choirs and dome (the type of Athos monasteries) and a chapel in
the South. The internal is richly decorated with fresco paintings of 17th and
18th c.
Both, church and chapel, are being restored.
Nowadays the church is used for religious purposes.
MONI RENTINIS (Monastery) KARDITSA
Tel: +30 24430 71206
MONI SPILIAS (Monastery) KARDITSA
Tel: +30 24450 31738-9
Fax: +30 24450 31739
MORFOVOUNI (Small town) KARDITSA
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