Listed 100 (total found 119) sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "WEST GREECE Region GREECE" .
ZACHARO (Small town) ILIA
Saint Spiridon is the protector of the town and the church is located at its highest point. It is over 100 years old. It has a beautiful garden and from all entrances the view to the sea is breathtaking. For decades now the St. Spiridon church has enriched the faith and held the respect of its residents.
AGIOVLASSITIKA (Village) PATRA
AMFILOCHIA (Town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
This church is found in the acropolis of ancient Limnea.
ANO ACHAIA (Village) PATRA
BOUKA (Village) AMFILOCHIA
DAFNIOTISSA (Village) AMALIADA
GASTOUNI (Small town) ILIA
The Byzantine
church of the Panaghia Katholiki at Gastouni, Eleia, is a two- columned inscribed
cruciform church of the 12th century. It has a semi-hexagonal apse, dome with
eight-sided drum and a narthex at the west side.
The walls, with panels of reticulate tiling and double layers of
tiles at the joins, are embellished with a plain ceramic decoration, especially
dentil courses, and with embedded glazed bowls. Unique Frankish influence of
the 14th century is seen in the pointed arch of the north doorway, now blocked.
The later addition of an exonarthex and large doorway openings are the only
few changes that have been made to the original form of the building.
Two layers of wall paintings are preserved on the interior. The
second layer is dated by an inscription to the year 1702 and was made with funds
contributed by Ioannikios the bishop of Olene. A second inscription of the same
period referring to the donors of the church and giving the date of building
as 1279, refers in all likelihood to the earlier donors' inscription.
KATOCHI (Small town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
It is believed that has been established from Theodora, the wife of Ioustianos.
PATRA (Town) ACHAIA
Basilica built in 1835 on the site of the Early Christian basilica
of Aghios Andreas. The architect was A. Kaftanzoglou. To the northwest there are
remains of an ancient construction: "well or font" of Aghios Andreas. To the northeast
is the larger church of the apostle Andreas.
This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
The two churches dedicated to Patras' patron Saint, St Andrew, constitute
a national and Pan-Orthodox place of pilgrimage. The small Church was erected
during the 1836-1843 period at the spot where Apostle Andrew died a martyr. It
is a basilica work of architect Lyssandros Kaftantzoglou. The whole body icons
on the roof depicting scenes from the Bible, Fathers and Patriarchs are works
of the great religious painter Dimitris Hatziaslanis, alias known as Byzantios.
At the front and on the right side of the Church, near the sanctuary, is located
the marble sepulchre of the Apostle. In the mid-4th century, on the initiative
of Emperor Constantine, the Holy Relics was transferred to St Apostles' Church
in Constantinople. When the Franks occupied the city, the Relics were transferred
to Italy. On September 26th 1964, the Saint's Head returned to Patras by Pope
Paul and after the actions that the citizens of Patras and the Orthodox Church
took.
The new magnificent Byzantine church was founded in 1908 by King George
I and inaugurated in 1974 by Patras' Metropolitan Bishop Nikodimos. It is the
largest and most artistic church in the Balkans and one of the largest across
Europe. The supervision of the construction works was initially undertaken by
architect Anastasios Metaxas, and after his death (1937) by architect Georgios
Nomikos. The Church's central dome is 46m high and supports a five meter high
gold-plated cross and twelve smaller ones, symbolising Jesus and his twelve disciples
respectively. The church's capacity is 5.500 persons.
a national and Pan-Orthodox place of pilgrimage. The small Church was erected
during the 1836-1843 period at the spot where Apostle Andrew died a martyr. It
is a basilica work of architect Lyssandros Kaftantzoglou. The whole body icons
on the roof depicting scenes from the Bible, Fathers and Patriarchs are works
of the great religious painter Dimitris Hatziaslanis, alias known as Byzantios.
At the front and on the right side of the Church, near the sanctuary, is located
the marble sepulchre of the Apostle. In the mid-4th century, on the initiative
of Emperor Constantine, the Holy Relics was transferred to St Apostles' Church
in Constantinople. When the Franks occupied the city, the Relics were transferred
to Italy. On September 26th 1964, the Saint's Head returned to Patras by Pope
Paul and after the actions that the citizens of Patras and the Orthodox Church
took.
This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Municipality of Patra URL below, which contains images.
Tel: +30 2610 275022
Fax: +30 2610 226482
PETROCHORI (Village) PATRA
Byzantine church of the 12th cent.
PLATANI (Village) RIO
Tel: +30 2610 223363
The
church of Aghios Nikolaos lies in the northern foothills of the Panachaikos,
on the right bank of the mountain torrent Xylokera. In a Venetian record of church
property of the end of the 17th century, it is referred to as an old monastery.
The church has undergone a considerable number of repairs.
The monument comprises the main church and a slightly wider narthex.
The wall construction, which is similar and unites the two, shows that church
and narthex are contemporary. The main church consists of a rectangular core measuring
5,50 X 3 m. on the interior, with two spacious apses measuring 3 m. on the chord
projecting from the north and south sides. All three apses are semi-circular on
the interior and three-sided on the exterior. This is usual in the Greek school
to which this monument belongs. Each of the three apses of the main church has
a double window.
Except for the lower sections and the eastern wall of the northern
part of the narthex, the monument is constructed with reticulate tiling, and tile
patterns enliven the appearance of the outer side. Aghios Nikolaos is a characteristic
example of church construction of the Greek school, and it dates to the beginning
of the 12th century. Today it is a parish church of the Community of Platani.
RIVIO (Village) ETOLOAKARNANIA
SILIVENIOTIKA (Village) EGIALIA
CHALKIOPOULI (Settlement) AMFILOCHIA
There is a small church in the homonymous cave.
CHRYSSANTHIO (Settlement) EGIALIA
ZACHARO (Small town) ILIA
It is a picturesque church built on an pine-covered hill. Every summer, on July 20th there is a big fiesta. For the Zacharians there has been a close bond with this church since the town΄s cemetery is there. It was built towards the end of the 19th century.
AGIOS SYMEON (City quarter) MESSOLONGI
Tel: +30 26310 22515
AMALIADA (Town) ILIA
On the outskirts of Amalias is the Byzantine
Monastery of Frangavilla, now the orphanage of the municipality of Elis. The
Katholikon, a Middle Byzantine building, is one of the most important churches
of Eleia. It is a four-columned inscribed cruciform church with a dome.
Later additions and repairs have altered its exterior appearance
and it now gives the impression of being massive and unarticulated. Preserved
on the interior are important wall paintings. The earliest are probably contemporary
with the erection of the building and the later ones are datable to the 17th century.
Tel: +30 26220 28442
Tel: +30 26220 28961
AMBELAKIOTISSA (Village) NAFPAKTOS
Tel: +30 26340 41207
AMBELOKAMBOS (Village) AMALIADA
Tel: +30 26220 61280
AMYGDALIES (Village) ILIA
Tel: +30 26260 41205
ANALIPSI (Village) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Tel: +30 26440 31200
ANGELOKASTRO (Village) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Tel: +30 26410 93220
ASTAKOS (Small town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Tel: +30 26460 41396
CHALKIANIKA (Settlement) EGIALIA
ETOLIKO (Town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Tel: +30 26320 22386
GAVALOU (Small town) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Tel: +30 26350 41244
KATO VLASSIA (Village) KALAVRYTA
Tel: +30 26920 41248
KENOURGIO (Small town) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Tel: +30 26410 25199
Tel: +30 26250 23431
Tel: +30 26240 81263
MEGA DENDRO (Village) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Tel: +30 26440 24050
MONI AGIAS ELEOUSSIS (Monastery) PATRA
Tel: +30 2610 998343
MONI AGIAS LAVRAS (Monastery) KALAVRYTA
Tel: +30 26920 22363
Fax: +30 26920 22006
Preserved from the first monastery is the Byzantine church with double pitched cross formed roof. In 1689 the monastery was moved lower down: a katholikon of Aghion Oros (Mt. Athos) type, where the
standard of the Revolution was raised in 1821. Ibrahim destroyed the monastery which was rebuilt on the same spot. In the sacristy is kept the Standard (labaron), icons, archives and sacred vessels.
MONI AGIAS MARINAS MARITSIS (Monastery) PATRA
Tel: +30 26930 91374
MONI AGION PANTON (Monastery) PATRA
Tel: +30 26940 31223
MONI AGION THEODORON (Monastery) KALAVRYTA
Tel: +30 26920 33244
MONI AGIOU IOANOU THEOLOGOU (Monastery) EGIALIA
Tel: +30 26910 94129
MONI EVAGELISTRIAS (Monastery) KALAVRYTA
Tel: +30 26920 71215
MONI FRAGOPIDIMATOS (Monastery) ILIA
Tel: +30 26210 51312
MONI KOIMISSEOS THEOTOKOU NOTENON (Monastery) PATRA
Tel: +30 26940 91381
MONI KREMASTIS (Monastery) ILIA
Tel: +30 26210 25303
MONI MEGALOU SPILEOU (Monastery) KALAVRYTA
Tel: +30 26920 22401, 23130
Fax: +30 26920 23035
Mega Spileo is considered to be the oldest monastery in Greece. It
was founded by saints Theodoros and Simeon after a vision by the shepherdess Euphrosyne
in 362 AD led to the discovery of the icon in the cave behind the site of the
later church.
It has been destroyed several times due to war incidents and fire.
The last major fire took place in 1934, after a keg of gunpowder left behind from
the War of Independence exploded. In 1943 the Nazis killed many of the residents
and looted seventy lorry loads of furniture and relics, much of it later recovered.
The view is the most beautiful gift of the monastery since it is located at a
height of 1000 m., while a huge building like castle, rises up to 8 floors inside
the physical hole of an enormous rock. The church of the monastery, built during
the 17th century, has beautiful frescoes, although old and blur, a floor with
mosaic and a bronze door with stinted draw. Inside the Mega Spileo is saved the
picture of Holy Mother, made of gum and wax, which is one of the three the Evangelist
Lukas had made. A path that starts from the monastery leads at the top of the
rock where there are left pieces of a castle and some cannons.
The monastery once had 450 monks and was among the richest in the
Greek world, owning properties throughout the Peloponnese,
in Macedonia, Constantinople
and Asia Minor. Its treasury, arranged as a small museum, is outstanding. There
is also a smaller chapel with a remarkable collection of body parts from various
saints.
This text is cited December 2004 from the West Greece Region General Secretariat URL below, which contains image.
MONI OBLOU (Monastery) PATRA
Tel: +30 2610 328413
MONI PAMEGISTON TAXIARCHON (Monastery) EGIALIA
Tel: +30 26910 56515
MONI PEPELENITSAS (Monastery) EGIALIA
Tel: +30 26910 95000
MONI RETHA (Monastery) AMFILOCHIA
Tel: +30 26420 51800
MONI SKAFIDIAS (Monastery) ILIA
Tel: +30 26210 94273
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