Listed 7 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "KALONI Municipality LESVOS" .
ANEMOTIA (Village) LESVOS
The church of St George (Agios Georgios) at Anemotia in the province
of Methymna is situated in the lower part of the settlement. It is a small building
with a tiled couple roof and, according to its inscription plate, it was built
in 1702. The iconography of its wall paintings deviates from the established iconographical
conventions. The circle of S. George's martyrdom as well as the scenes of Apocalypse
are of particular interest.
KERAMIO (Village) LESVOS
The church
of St John (Agios Ioannis) is located in the centre of Lesbos,
at the village Kerami, between Kalloni
and Papiana. It is of relatively small dimensions (11,70 x 4,50 m), built according
to the type of a side-aisled basilica, with an addition of a wood-roofed collonate
along the north side.
According to the inscription plate, the church was built in 1733.
It is built of stones, while an upper zone of ceramic ornamentation is created
by five horizontal zones of bricks, which alternate in their arrangement creating
an impressive decoration.
The interior of the sanctuary is decorated with wall paintings contemporary
to the erection of the monument. They present a typical iconography, according
to which in the upper zone we find scenes from the life of Christ, in the middle
zone depictions of saints while the lower one is taken up by a decorative motive.
For the time being restoration works of the wall paintings are carried
out by the 14th Ephorate
of Byzantine Antiquities.
This text is cited June 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
IERA MONI LIMONOS (Monastery) LESVOS
Tel: +30 22530 22289
The Monastery
of Leimon is a men's convent, situated in the centre of Lesbos, at a 14 km
distance from Kalloni, in a fertile basin. It was founded in Byzantine years and
was inhabited until the occupation of the island by the Turks. The monastery was
re-founded in 1526 by Saint Ignatios Agallianos, a significant personality who
contributed in the rebirth of both education and the Church. At that time the
well-known "Leimonias" school - which remained open until 1923 - functioned
within the monastery's enclosure.
The katholikon (main church) was built in 1526, at the time of the
monastery's reformation and was repeatedly restored. It is a three-aisled basilica
with the roof of the middle aisle higher than the other two and a double narthex.
It is decorated with interesting wall paintings that date in the second half of
the 16th and the first half of the 17th century. Worth mentioning is the wooden-carved
gilded templon in the church's interior.
Today in the monastery there is an important library with manuscripts
and a vestry.
It is in the center of the island at a distance of 3 km northwest of the small town of Kalloni. Its Cathedral is dedicated to the Taxiarches (Archangels). The Archbishop of Mythimna Ignatios Agalianos, who is the saint honoured in the monastery, built it in 1523. During the years of Ottoman occupation it was the only intellectual center of the island. The Cathedral is an imposing three-aisle basilica, with a fretwork and gold-plated icon-screen and frescos painted in the Byzantine manner ca. 1800. The Monastery has a library, a Museum of Ecclesiastical Art and a Museum of Geology (1990).
This text is cited Jan 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains image.
MONI PANAGIAS MYSRISNIOTISSIS LIMONOS (Monastery) LESVOS
Tel: +30 22530 22729
It is at a distance of 4 km from Kalloni. It is Byzantine convent, annexed to the Monastery of Leimonas and founded by Ayios Ignatios in 1523, in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Inside the Cathedral the visitor can admire valuable Byzantine icons, an old fretwork icon-screen and significant wall paintings (hagiographies).
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
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