14/11/2006
Church for the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Skamneli
The Church for the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Skamneli in Zagorion has been mentioned in a list of Stavropegiake monasteries that was published by Gideon, the Head Archivist for the Patriarchates, as the «Holy Monastery to the Most Holy Virgin Mary at Skamneli Zagorion». It would appear that at some time in the past the church had been a monastery, on the basis of the «Supreme and Angelic Legion of the Monks » that exists behind the main entry to the church. The magnificent iconostasis at the church has been dated to 1708.
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