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Monastery of Agia Lavra

Monastery, Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments, Cultural heritage
(Est. 10th century)
Address: 25001 MONI AGIAS LAVRAS , KALAVRYTA , GREECE
  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.
Monastery of Agia Lavra View of the historical Monastery
Monastery of Agia Lavra
View of the historical Monastery
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Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments

Art & culture

  • Visiting Information
    • By appointment

  • On site monuments
    • Churches: Middle Byzantine period, AD 610-1204Modern and contemporary Greece, 1821-today
    • Monastery: Byzantine period, AD 324-1453Post-Byzantine period, 1453-1821Modern and contemporary Greece, 1821-today
    • Frescoes

Executives & Departments

  • Archaeological service:, Tel.: 2610 276143, 223363, Fax: 2610 623005
    6th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, 56 Filopoimenos St., Patra

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