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SKOPELOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
SKIATHOS (Island) NORTH SPORADES
The Church of "Christos sto Kastro" was the cathedral of the medieval city. It is a basilica with a wood cut roof, built in the 17th century. It has worthwhile frescoes and a nice wood cut icon screen dated in 1695. This is the church which has been praised the most by Alexandros Papadiamantis and Alexandros Moraitidis in their Christmas novels.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains images.
SKIATHOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
"I Panagia i Limnia" with the nice bell-tower rising in the whole village is the second parish church of the island. The icons from "Christos sto Kastro - Christ in the Castle" as well as Papadiamantis's head are kept here. The parish of Panagia continues to preserve the nice traditions and customs of the island, so vividly represented in the writhen work of Alexandros Papadiamantis and Alexandros Moraitidis.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains image.
The church of "Trion Ierarchon" (The Tree Church Fathers) which has been the cathedral of the island for 150 years leads the intellectual cultivation of the island, since it was blessed to have in its bosoms competent and excellent priests and intellectual leaders such as priest Adamantios, father of Papadiamantis, priest Nikolas Papanikolaou, priest Andreas Bouras and other led always by priest Georgios Rigas, the great scholar and author of the island. The Church of "Trion Ierarchon" is a basilica of three aisles, built in 1846. It is built in the centre of the village near the beach. In this church there is the icon of Panagias tis Eikonistrias, which was found in a miraculous way around 1650. This is the patron saint of the island and it is a sacred pilgrimage for both the inhabitants and the visitors of the island. Many sacred heirlooms from all the country churches of the island have been transferred into this church as well as many icons of great archaeological value. all these sacred heirlooms are in perfect functional condition. Here services are held according to the old ritual and the tradition of "Kollyvathes" still remains alive.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains images.
SKOPELOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
Panagia Eikonistria is the most holy site of the island, since the miraculous icon of Panagia was found here around 1650 AC. According to the tradition the icon was hanged from a pine tree and moved back-forth. That’s why is also called "Kounistra" (moving). An important intellectual figure of the island and of the Church, Dionysios the Old, was a monk at this monastery. The Catholikon is a basilica of one aisle with a dome, built in the 17th century and has a gold plated rood screen and spectacular hagiographies.
The Panagia Eikonistria icon in nowadays is housed in the Skiathos Cathedral church and is honoured every year on the day of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, on 21st of November, with a great festivity as Panagia Eikonistria is the protector of the island.
MONI EVANGELISTRIAS (Monastery) SKIATHOS
Tel: +30 24270 22012
The Monastery of the Annunciation or the Evangelistria, as it is widely known, is one of the most remarkable monuments of Northern Sporades.< br>
The Monastery was built on the Agallianou site, where there were ruins of an old monastery. The complex was built from 1794 to 1806 and became the stronghold of "Kollyvades". A group of monks from Agion Oros, led by Niphon, due to a feud that emerged after the mid-18th century to the beginning of the 19th, left from there and went to several islands ( Patmos, Samos, Leipso etc.). After a short wandering they went to Skiathos, where they proceeded with the monastery’s building.
Monastery’s architecture is based on the one of the Agion Oros monasteries. The Cathedral is a condensed form of the Athonite type with the lateral spaces, the frugal and the splint and roofed by three domes, covered by gray slates. The rich rood screen projects into the simple space of the church. Only the Holy Step has frescoes from the time of the Greek Revolution, by painters from Galatista. In this space kept in ambries bones of many Saints. Outside the Catholic, within the monastery complex are the monks’ cells, the bank, the hospital, the hostel, the vesta (kitchen), the magkipeio, the taliagkra (olive press), the library, the chapels, the storerooms, the stable, etc. In addition, the monastery has a valuable library with many rare publications and documents, an eccestiastic museum, where are many priestly utensils and relics and a olive press/exhibition.
Daily itineraries from the town of Skiathos to the monastery service the visitors.
SKANTZOURA (Small island) ALONISSOS
SKIATHOS (Island) NORTH SPORADES
Panagia Eikonistria is the most holy site of the island since the miraculous icon of Virgin Mary (Panagia) was found here around 1650. An important intellectual figure of the island and of the Church, Dionysios the Old, was a monk in this monastery. The "Katholikon" of the monastery (its church) which is honoured on the day of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary each year, is a basilica of one aisle with a dome, built in the 17th century. All the church has been painted with hagiographs but the smoke from the many candles has caused extensive damage.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains images.
Immersed in the greenery, deep in the Lekhounio gorge beside the springs
in the place called Agalianos, under Karaphlytzanakia, the highest peak on Skiathos,
stands the Holy Communal Monastery dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin,
The Evangelistrias Monastery or Vangelistrias as it is called by the Skiathians.
Construction of the monastery was started in 1794 by a group of kollyvados monks
who had been forced to leave the Holy Mount of Athos in the face of disturbances
resulting from disputes over the celebration of Canonical Requiem Masses Saturdays
rather than Sundays. The objective was a return to the tradition of the Ancient
Orthodox Church. The group leader was Niphon, an Ordained Monk, whose worldly
name was Nicholas "from the line of the Nicholarades", who was born in 1736 at
the village of Patrika on the island of Chios. He served in the Monastery of the
Greatest Banner and the retreat of the Omnipotent on the Holy Mount of Athos.
Initially he went to Samos, Patmos, Leipso and Icaria where, in 1775, he founded
the monastery of the Annunciation at Leucada. Amongst the monks at the Monastery
of the Annunciation was one Gregorios Khadjistamatis, a Skiathian, who, upon the
death of his father, inherited extensive property on Skiathos. Possessing this
large estate Gregorios persuaded Niphon to move to the green island of Skiathos
and establish a new monastery, abandoning Icaria "for the all-pervading barrenness
and unwholesomeness of the place".
Construction of the monastery complex was completed in 1806 and it
became the epicenter of the kollyvados both during the disputation and in the
following years. The kollyvados spirit has profoundly influenced the life of the
Skiathian islanders and that most significant writer of (modern) Greek prose,
Alexander Papadiamantis and also of the Skiathian author Alexander Moraitidis.
Father Niphon, first abbot and founder of the monastery passed away at the age
of 73 on the 28th of December 1809. The second abbot and cofounder were the Skiathian
Gregorios Khadjistamatis (1809 - 1815). Subsequently, and to this day, there have
been 30 other abbots the last of-whom is the present abbot, Father Angelos Lyssaris.
The Monastery of the Annunciation provided significant moral and
material assistance to the pre-revolutionary movements as well as during the revolution
of 1821. It was there, that in the year 1807, the first Greek flag with the white
Cross at its center on a blue ground was designed, woven, blessed and raised.
It was on this flag that Father Niphon swore in the guerrilla leaders Theodore
Kolokotronis, Andreas Miaoulis, Papathymios Vlakhavas, Iannis Stathas, Nikotsaras,
the Skiathian Teacher of the Nation, Epiphanios - Stephanos Dimitriadis and many
others following the great assembly held at the monastery to lay out plans to
liberate the (Greek) Nation. The philosopher priest, Theophilos Kairis, following
his conviction by the Holy Synod in 1839, was confined to the Monastery.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains images.
SKIATHOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
Tel: +30 24270 23333
Fax: +30 24270 23333
SKOPELOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
Tel: +30 24240 23230
The Holy Monastery of Evangelistria is one of the innumerable
byzantine monuments saved in Skopelos. What has remained from the monastery is
the church and the defensive walls.
The monastery church, honoured to the "Announciation of the Virgin"
is in the cross - in - square with dome, without narthex. It dates to the end
of 18th century.
Tel: +30 24240 22560
Tel: +30 24240 22395
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