Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "LEROS Municipality LEROS" .
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.
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.
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.
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.
XIROKAMBOS (Village) LEROS
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