Listed 100 (total found 223) sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "SOUTH AEGEAN Region GREECE" .
ARCHANGELOS (Municipality) RHODES
CHALKI (Village) DODEKANISSOS
KASSOS (Port) DODEKANISSOS
AGIA MARINA (Small town) LEROS
AGIOS ISSIDOROS (Beach) LEROS
The small church of Agios Isidoros on the bay of Gurrna
its a unique place to visit. The small chapel has been built on a small rock 50
meters about away from the land, you can walk though on the small dock and get
to the church. The view is amazing especially at sunset, its a perfect place for
daily excursions and walk across the gurna bay.
AGIOS PAVLOS (Beach) LINDOS
ANO MERIA (Village) FOLEGANDROS
ANO SYROS (Small town) SYROS
The church of Agios Georgios, "Saint Georges",
is situated on top of the hill of Ano
Syros. It has been the cathedral ("mitropolis") of the island’s
catholic community since 1652.
It was built in about 1200 A.D. and since then has been restored more
than 3 times. In 1617, it was destroyed by the Turks. It acquired its present
appearance after 1834.
It boasts an impressive organ as well as exquisite frescoes and statues.
The icons of Agios Georgios and the Panagia tis Elpidas
are well-known and treated with great reverence. The portrait of bishop Andreas
Kargas, who was hung by the Turks, is worth a mention.
The Centre
of Historical Studies is situated at the back of the church.
Near to this church, one comes across the bust of the literary figure Velisarios Freris.
Agios Nikolaos is one of the two orthodox churches on the hill of Ano Syros. The second one is Agia Triada.
The historical church of Agios Sevastianos is situated at the foot of the hill of Ano Syros.
ASTYPALEA (Port) DODEKANISSOS
This church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was built in 1853 and is found at the entrance of the Caslte. In the interior, there are an inscription dating back to 1413 and the shields of the Querini family.
It was built in 1790.
Panagia Portaitissa makes up the religious centre of the island with
the largest amount of homage. It began being built in 1762 by the blind Osios
Anthimos from Cephalonia,
who before building Panagia Portaitissa, had built the monasteries of Zoodochou
Pigis at Sikinos and Saint
George at Castelorizo. The
construction of the church lasted nine years during which according to tradition,
many miracles occurred.
It is dedicated to Panagia Portaitissa of the Iviron
monastery, a copy of whose icon Osios Anthimos brought to Astypalea. On the
15th August when the celebration of Portatissa is held, there is a grand festival
with violins and utes.
This text (extract) is cited November 2003 from the Municipality
of Astypalea tourist pamphlet (1999).
CHALKI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
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CHORA KALYMNOY (Small town) KALYMNOS
DRYMONAS (Village) LEROS
It is aisleless barrel - vaulted church with a large apse. On the
south wall, there is a frescoe depicting the Virgin Nikopeios and is dated in
the 14th century. From time to time, repair and consolidation works are carried
out. In 1993 the frescoe was restored, and earlier frescoe layers have been discovered.
It is a place of worship.
It is an aisleless barrel vaulted church with a semi - circular apse.
Along the north and south wall there are two blind arches. nly a few wall paintings
remain today of the church' s original decoration: on the apse, there is the representation
of Deesis with a dedicatory inscription. On the east barrel - vault of the northern
part of the church, there is the representation of the Annunciation and on the
south, the Crucifixion. In the main part of the church, on the east blind arch
of the north wall, there is the Virgin enthroned Hodegetria and four front saints.
The frescoes are of the 14th century.
In the apse, the dedicatory inscription, read by the historian M.
Gedeon, mentions the church' s renovation in 1327.
In 1991 an excavatory research of an adjacent structure, west of the
church, uncovered christian burials.
From time to time the church is restored and repaired. In 1991 the
external masonry was consolidated and the surrounding place was tidied up. It
is a place of worship.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below.
It is a rectangular shaped church with a blind cupola. It was built over the ruins
of an early christian three aisled basilica. It is a place of worship.
ELEOUSSA (Village) RHODES
The fourteenth-century Byzantine church of with its interesting wall paintings, on the drive to Eleousa through the cool, green forests passes. It is believed that the hillsides here were once covered with hazelnuts.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Rodos Hotels Association URL below.
EMBORIO (Small town) SANTORINI
Grave monument in the shape of a small, square temple (4.18 x 3.59 m.) built entirely of grey marble. It is preserved intact, up to the roof, which is made of marble slabs and is supported by three monolithic marble posts inside the building. The entrance is located on the south side. A small niche inside the tomb, flanked by small Ionic columns supporting a Doric architrave, sheltered the statue of the goddess. The structure is dated to the 3rd century B.C.
According to the inscription carved below the niche, the temple was dedicated to the goddess Basileia and was used as a family tomb.
The monument has now been converted into a Christian church, dedicated to St. Nicholas and has been called "Marmarites" (of the marble) after the building material of the tomb.
This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
EPISKOPI GONIAS (Village) THIRA
Not far from the village of Mesa Gonia, in the foothills of Prophet
Elias, is the Byzantine church of the Episcopate of Thera, founded at the end
of the 11th century by the Emperor Alexios I Comnenos.
It is an inscribed-cross, four-columned church with dome. Preserved
in the interior are wall paintings of excellent quality and a wooden, carved templon
(iconostasis), decorated in the technique of mastic wax.
This was the seat of the Orthodox and, later, the Latin Episcopate.
During the Turkish occupation there were disputes between the Orthodox and Latin
inhabitants of the island as to who should hold the property and oversee the running
of the church. Today the church gathers large crowds on August Fifteenth, the
day of its festival.
In 1986 work was carried out on the church by the 2nd Ephorate of
Byzantine Antiquities: the outside was repaired and the roof tiles replaced.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
KALYMNOS (Town) DODEKANISSOS
KARPATHOS (Small town) DODEKANISSOS
KATAVIA (Village) NOTIA RODOS
KOS (Town) DODEKANISSOS
The church is inside the actual cemetery, southwards to the Kos city. The ground
plan shows a circle with four semicircular corner conchs and one in the middle
of the eastern side, inscribed in a quadrangle. Two more conchs in the middle
of southern and northern side, along with the five mentioned above, gave the
church this name. One concentric colonnade in the interior, formed of eight unfluted
columns, has been replaced by walls. The entrance is in the middle of the western
side of the church.
The church was originally an early christian baptistery of the 5th
- 6th century, which belonged to a basilica, partly excavated and complemented
during the Italian occupation. No trace of it is seen today. It is perhaps the
only early christian baptistery, that has remained almost intact up to this day
and remains still in use as a cemetery church.
Frescoes of 12th - 13th century, with scenes of the life of St. John
the Precursor have been recently discovered, as well as others of the 16th century.
The church' s masonry presents some interesting elements, such as the use of hellenistic
frieze with garlands on the lower part of the sanctuary apse, architraves, bases,
early christian mullions, pilaster- capitals etc. in various parts of the walls.
The text is cited from The Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Tourism WebPage
KYRA PANAGIA (Settlement) KARPATHOS
LAGKADA (Village) AMORGOS
Agia Triada - Hanging on a ledge under an overhang, the small Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) church, reminds of the position and appearance of Hozoviotissa. It was built during the years of piracy and it was used as an occasional hiding place for the Aegialis population. It is only 5 minutes walk from Lagada village, and overlooks the whole area of Tholaria, Lagada, and the valley of Aegialis with the port. There is a spring festival every year, 50 days after Greek easter.
LEROS (Port) DODEKANISSOS
It is a cross - inscribed two columned church with cupola. The multiple
repairs during the 18th and 19th century in the cross' s side arms, have altered
the form of the monument: today it is a three aisled cross vault basilica, with
a semi - circular apse.
Countless early christian and middle byzantine capitals, architraves
etc. have been walled up in the church' s masonry.
The most important piece of frescoe, depicting the Communion of St
Mary the Egyptian by Zosimas, is on the northwestern part of the church and dated
in the 13th century.
The church is from time to time repaired. It is a place of worship.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below.
LIPSI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
17th century.
Tel: +30 22470 41205
16th century.
MEGALO CHORIO (Village) TILOS
MEGISTI (Village) DODEKANISSOS
MESSANAGROS (Village) NOTIA RODOS
It is dated in the 16th-17th century.
1734
MONI (Village) NAXOS
The church is near the village of Moni in the area of Tragaia, Naxos. It is an Early Christian, tri-apsidal church with a dome. Three single-room chapels are incorporated along the northern side. The interior wall surfaces have wall paintings of various phases.The earliest layer of wall paintings, which dates to the end of the 6th and beginning of the 7th centuries has been revealed in the dome, the sanctum and in the northern apse. The latest layer on both dome and apse is datable to the 13th and 14th centuries; it has been removed from the wall.
The church was probably originally the Katholikon of the Monastery. Later on, information about the Drosiane is given by the Duke of the Aegean Sea, Ioannes IV Crispos (1555) and others. In addition, benedictory inscriptions of the 6th and 7th centuries are preserved on the walls.
The church was restored in 1964. Cleaning of the wall paintings and removal of the most recent layers has been carried out over the years 1964 - 1971.
This text is cited Mar 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
MYKONOS (Town) KYKLADES
Tel: +30 22890 25250, 25976
Fax: +30 22890 23350
The founding of the Paraportiane church
must coincide with the growth
of the settlement of the fortress (Castro) of Chora during the 15th and 16th centuries.
It is a two storey complex comprising five little churches.
The bottom floor consists of four churches and a passageway. The areas
all communicate with each other.
The three little churches consist each of a single vaulted room and
form the western side of the complex.
NISYROS (Port) DODEKANISSOS
PALIO PYLI (Settlement) KOS
PARTHENI (Village) LEROS
It is a three aisled contemporary church. It was decorated in 1970
by the political prisoners of the Parthenios K. Tsatires and Karayamis camp. On
the central aisle, the first painter has painted the Dormition of the Virgin,
the four Evangelists, the Man of Sorrows, the Prayer in the Garden of Gesthemane
and scenes of the Virgin' s life. The second, has painted on the South wall, the
Last Supper, the Annunciation, the Baptism, the Crucifixion and the Lamentation.
From time to time, works of restoration and consolidation are carried
out. It is a place of worship.
The church is an historical scheduled building, according to the greek
law, on account of its unique frescoes, painted by exiled artists in Partheni
during the years of dictatorship (1967 - 1974). These frescoes express the anguish
and the forfeiture of freedom of the greek nation during those years.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below.
It is an aisleless, barrel - vaulted church with saddleback roof covered
with large concave tiles. The apse is trilateral in the exterior and semi circular
in the interior. On the western part, over the entrance, there is a large horse
shoe discharging arch. Inside the sanctuary one sees two early christian marble
panels. On the south wall, a frescoe of St George is dated in the 18th century.
The monument is mentionned in a 1089 document in the Archives of St
Jonh the Theologian' s Holy Monastery in Patmos.
From time to time repair and consolidations works of a small scale
are carried out.
The church of St. George is today inside the enclosure of the neighbouring
archaeological site of the so - called «Temple of Artemis».
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below.
POSSIDONIA (Village) SYROS
Possidonia's orthodox church of Agios Ioannis is most certainly worth a visit.
The catholic church of Agios Petros is well worth a visit to Possidonia.
Possidonia is sometimes called Dellagratsia, after the name of the church of Santa Maria Della Grazia
PROFILIA (Village) NOTIA RODOS
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