Listed 35 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "PEDIADA Province HERAKLIO" .
AGIES PARASKIES (Village) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Attesting to its former importance, this village has eight churches
in various states of disrepair. Of the eight, only Agia Zoni contains frescoes
worth seeing. The church also possesses some old icons. It is very near the centre
of the village.
AGIOS VASSILIOS (Village) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Agios Vasilios contains a very old Byzantine church which was renovated
in 1291. In the church of Agios Ioannis Prodromos there are some interesting,
well-preserved frescoes by Fokas. The church belongs to the Sinai Monastery which
is near the village.
From Agios Vasilios you can reach the church of Agii Apostoli and
the Panagia. This is a Venetian church high in the mountains, near a Venetian
castle on a difficult road. The church is open and there is a relief of a coat
of arms.
ALAGNI (Village) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
The church of Sotiras is in the centre of the village.
The Byzantine church of the Panagia in Alagni has cruciform architecture
with a dome in the centre. Outside the church there is an interesting old grave.
ASTRAKI (Village) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Τhe church of the Panagia has a unique relief of the Byzantine eagle
carved on the front and inside is a grave with an coat of arms in relief on it.
EPISKOPI (Small town) HERAKLIO
Within the village is the Byzantine church Agios Ioannis which contains frescoes. In particular, Agios Ioannis has very striking frescoes, especially the one of Christ ascending into heaven. Giuseppe Gerola (1900 Italian historical photographer) considered it to be among the best in Crete.
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Within the village is the Byzantine church Agios Ioannis which contains frescoes. In particular, Agios Ioannis has very striking frescoes, especially the one of Christ ascending into heaven. Giuseppe Gerola (1900 Italian historical photographer) considered it to be among the best in Crete.
The Byzantine church of the Panagia Limniotisa is located in the area
of Kefala, 1.5km from Episkopi, and contains frescoes from the eleventh century.
The single-aisled church has blind arches on the side of the church with brick
decorations, some frescoes, and a (collapsed) dome. A window in the middle section
has a column in the middle.
EVANGELISMOS (Village) KASTELI
In the village of Evangelismos is the Byzantine church of Evangelismos
containing some unusual frescoes, including one that represents Adam and Eve in
paradise. The church has cruciform architecture without a dome and the transept
of the church is higher than the nave.
KASTELI (Village) HERAKLIO
In Kastelli is the Byzantine church of Agia Fotini and Agios Spiridon.
The church has an unusual shape composed of two aisles, one shorter and smaller
than the other. The exterior decorations of the windows and doors are interesting.
KOUNAVI (Village) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
The Byzantine church of Metamorphosis of Sotiras, Agios Nikolaos and
Agios Dimitrios has three aisles and five blue-coloured domes in the shape of
a cross, the central one higher than the others. The doors are interestingly decorated.
LYKTOS (Ancient city) KASTELI
The city also existed in Byzantine times. The church of Timios Stavros
is built on the site of an earlier, fifth century, basilica.
PIGI (Settlement) KASTELI
In Pigi the Byzantine church of Agios Pandeleimonas, one of the oldest
on Crete, is in a serene setting near trees and water. It is a three-aisled basilica
and the three aisles are separated by four arches in each aile. The last arch
towards the sanctuary is higher and circular. The arches are supported by columns
without capitals. One column is constructed from column capitals only, one above
the other. Those and many other parts of the church seem to have been taken from
older Byzantine or Roman buildings on the site. The outside walls of the church
are decorated with marbles, crosses, and inscriptions. One side of the church
has blind Byzantine brick arches that extend nearly to the roof of the church.
The frescoes in the church are in two overlapping layers with the first layer
containing some of the oldest paintings in Crete.
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POTAMIES (Village) CHERSONISSOS
The chapel of Afentis Christos is a small, single-roomed church and
contains some frescoes.
SKLAVEROCHORI (Settlement) KASTELI
The village of Sklaverohori contains a Byzantine church, the Presentation
of the Virgin (Esodia Theotokou) with well-preserved frescoes of the fifteenth-sixteenth
century that are of high artistic quality.
SKOTINO (Village) GOUVES
Outside the cave is the Byzantine church of Agia Paraskevi dating
from the Venetian period.
EPISKOPI (Small town) HERAKLIO
The Byzantine church of Agios Georgios is in a pleasant forested area
and has noteworthy exterior decorations and a few paintings inside. South of the
village of Episkopi a dirt road goes down the valley.
The monastery is below the village and can be reached in a ten minute
walk.
KASTELI (Village) HERAKLIO
About 5 km NW of Kasteli, a sign on the road indicates the way to
the Monastery of Kallergi,
a lovely place, shady and cool, full of flowers. The church of Aghios Ioannis
was renovated in 1912, according to the inscription on the belfry, but bears obvious
architectural elements belonging to earlier dates.
The abbot Methodios Perakis bought the monastery in 1874 from the
larger monastery of Vidiani in the Lassithi
plateau. There are traces of monks having lived here at a much earlier date,
and according to M. Karavelakis, the present building was erected ca. 1850 on
the ruins of an older one.
The monastery was abandoned after its 1912 renovation, and a fire
completed its destruction in 1931, burning down over 800 trees. Nowadays, the
ancient church is in reasonably good condition and the main building has been
restored, with the vaulted SW part turned into a refectory. There is a newer church
built just outside the precincts of the monastery.
MONI AGARATHOU (Monastery) THRAPSANO
Tel: +30 2810 771218, 771621, 771874
The Agarathos Monastery is 23km from Iraklion on an exit at 8km of the Iraklion - Agios Nikolaos highway. This women's convent, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is one of the oldest monasteries in Crete. Manuscripts in the British Museum, dated 1559, provide evidence that it had an important library then. During Venetian times this monastery, as well as Agia Ekaterini in Iraklion, were educational centres and provided instruction for many important scholars. The name of the monastery comes from Agarathia, which means Jerusalem Sage because it is believed that an icon of the Panagia was found in this spot under a Jerusalem Sage bush. The church of the monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. When the Turks invaded the island the icon of the Panagia and other valuables were sent by the Abbot to Kithera for protection. Many inscriptions in the monastery date from the Venetian era, although the present church is new.
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MONI AGIOU GEORGIOU EPANOSSIFI (Monastery) NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Tel: +30 2810 51231, 51093
Epanosifi Monastery is 32km south of Iraklion on the Iraklion - Knossos
- Kounavi - Houdetsi - Epanosifi Monastery road. It is believed that it was built
in the sixteenth century. It was an important intellectual centre during the Turkish
occupation and was destroyed by them. Today it is a pleasant, prosperous-looking
place.
MONI AGIOU IOANOU TOU THEOLOGOU (Monastery) GOUVES
Tel: +30 2810 781349
The monastery
is located in a small distance south east of Anopolis
in a tree covered valley. It was first a part of the Saint George monastery located
by the mouth of Aposelemis river a few kilometers to the north, but around 15th
- 16th century the monks due to the raids of the pirates moved from Saint George’s
monastery to the monastery of Saint John taking with them the icon of the Saint
which exists until today.
During the Turkish occupation a "secret school" has been operating
at the monastery which was also a base of the rebellions against the invaders.
The monks of the monastery and the people of Anopolis
paid for their activities when in July 1896 the Turks slaughtered them and ruined
the monastery. A cross stands at the top of the overlooking hill to remind this
massacre.
The monastery was refounded by Kalinikos Daskalakis (1904 - 1936).
MONI KARDIOTISSAS (Monastery) CHERSONISSOS
Tel: +30 28970 51203, 51490
Kardiotissa Monastery is 6km above Avdou, after the village of Kera.
It is 45km southeast of Iraklion towards the Lassithi Plateau.
The monastery of Kera Kardiotissa is located in a pleasant setting, high in the
mountains of Dikte, with a view of the Pediada Valley and the sea. The monastery
celebrates on 8 September -- the birth of the Virgin Mary. It is a very old monastery
which was in existence during the second Byzantine period (961-1204). It is a
two-aisled church with beautifully decorated windows, and on the sides of the
church are large, blind arches decorated with bricks. Inside the church are fourteenth
century frescoes and old icons. The wooden altar screen of the church is very
attractive. The icon of the church was reputed to have been stolen in the fifteenth
century and is now in the church of Saint Alfonso on Esquiline Hill in Rome and
is named the Virgin of Perpetual Succour.
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POTAMIES (Village) CHERSONISSOS
Tel: +30 2810 288484, 288394
Fax: +30 2810 288484
According to tradition, the monastery of the Panagia Gouverniotissa was built by a Byzantine King who came to Crete after its liberation from the Arabs in 961 A.D. The cruciform church has two aisles of the same height, and a dome in the centre. The dome has arches with windows in them. The church contains some elegant frescoes dominated by the Pantocrator in the dome. The church, high up on a hill, has a pleasant view of the green valley below. The monastery's valuable icons, carved wooden altar screen and sanctuary doors are on display in the Historical Museum of Crete in Iraklion.
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