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14/11/2006
Monastery of Aghioi Anargyroi at Kleidonia
The Monastery of Aghioi Anargyroi at Kleidonia in Zagorion where in accordance with an inscription above the door on the western wall of the church we read that it was built in 1658 and was decorated circa 1666. The iconostasis for the church with the smooth relief, with the impressed technique, was created at about the middle of the 17th century and more specifically in 1660.
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14/11/2006
Monastery of Aghia Paraskevi at Skamneli
The Monastery of Aghia Paraskevi at Skamneli in Zagorion where according to tradition it is said that the church was built in an unknown period and that it was established as a Stavropegiake monastery during the period of the Despot dynasty in Epirus, whilst another tradition mentions that it was built in the 12th 13th century AD.
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14/11/2006
Monastery of Aghios Nikolaos at Tzora
The Monastery of Aghios Nikolaos at Tzora is located at the Driskos peak, north east of the city of Ioannina. In accordance with information that has been provided to us by Mr. Lambrides, the monastery was established in 790, however Mr. Arabantinos has preserved that the monastery has been mentioned for the first time in 1321 in a golden bull by the emperor Andronicus Palaeologos, by which it was assigned to the Metropolitan Church of Ioannina.
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14/11/2006
Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Botsas
The Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Botsa is one of the most ancient monasteries in Epirus, which is located close to Greveniti, a town to the east of Zagorion, at an exquisite location beside the Bardas River
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14/11/2006
Aghios Athanasios at Mikron Peristerion
Aghios Athanasios at Mikron Peristerion in the Metsovo region is a church that has probably been built between the 15th and 16th century, since below the murals, which exist to this date and have been dated, in accordance with the inscription, to 1680 A.D., there has also been detected another layer with older murals.
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14/11/2006
The Transfiguration of the Saviour at Anthochorion
The Transfiguration of the Saviour at Anthochorion in Metsovo is a small chapel at the Zoodochos Pege monastery (Kokkino Lithari or in the Walachian idiom «Kiatra Rosia»).
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14/11/2006
Monastery of Aghios Nikolaos at Skamneli
At Skamneli a town of Zagorion there is also the Monastery of Aghios Nikolaos. In accordance with information it was established in 1683 A.D. by three monks from Aghia Paraskevi, the other, older monastery at the town, Aghia Paraskevi.
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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.
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14/11/2006
The Church of Aghia Paraskevi at Metsovo
The Church of Aghia Paraskevi at Metsovo is in the basilica style with three aisles and belongs to the style of three nature churches with an asymmetrical arrangement of the holy introit. The cells that existed until recently indicate that the church had previously been a monastery.
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14/11/2006
Church of Aghios Nikolaos at Tsepelovo
The Church of Aghios Nikolaos at Tsepelovo in Zagorion is a magnificent parish church in the three aisle basilica style, which has three natures. Information mentions that the church was built in 1753 whilst the hagiography was painted in 1786.
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