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ARTA (Town) EPIRUS
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.
Photo Album in URL, information in Greek only.
Single-aisled basilica
with two conched chapels, the south dedicated to St. Gregory and the north to
St. John Chrysostomos. The walls are lavishly decorated on the outside with patterns
in brick and tile. Two glazed clay icons were preserved on the pediment of the
east side; the first depicts the three Hierarchs and the second the Crucifixion.
They are exhibited now in the Byzantine Museum of Ioannina. The interior is decorated
with wall paintings dated to the 17th century.
The church is located in the old quarter of the Tourkopazaro, in Arta.
It was built at the end of the 14th century A.D. During the 17th century, the
"Greek School" of the scholar Castorianos Manolakis was established in its precinct.
The first scholars to mention the church of St. Bazil in modern times are the
Russian archimandrite Antoninos in 1886 and the metropolitan bishop Serapheim
in 1884.
In 1979 the frescoes were cleaned and restored, in 1980 the roof was
repaired and the masonry was consolidated. In 1991 the roof was reconstructed,
and in 1994 the electrical installation was completed. Today the monument is used
as a church but liturgy takes place only on the day of its patron saint.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
It is a small church built in 1770.
Tel: +30 26810 27533
Fax: +30 26810 28610
MONI GENISSIS THEOTOKOU (Monastery) ARTA
Tel: +30 26810 27660, 24829
The church
is a three-aisled basilica with a transverse barrel-vault.
The east side ends in three semi-hexagonal apses while a narthex was later added to the west. The walls are adorned
on the outside with a great variety of brick and tile decoration, including an inscription inset in a brick. The interior is richly
decorated with wall paintings dated to the 18th century.
The monastery was built in the 13th century, by Michael Doukas Comnenos, the Despot of Epiros. In the
period of the Turkish occupation it was renamed to "Panagia tis Vryseos" (Holy Virgin of the spring), because it was
located near a spring. In the sigillium of Patriarch Jeremian II (1591) it is mentioned that the Paregoritissa Monastery
became the metochion (dependence) of the Monastery of Kato Panaghia.
The roof and the windows of the north and south sides were reconstructed in 1969. The restoration of the
wall paintings began in 1994, and in 1995 the roof was replaced and the wall masonry was consolidated. The restoration
work is still in progress. The monument is now used as a convent for nuns.
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