Location information

MESSA DIDIMA (Village) CHIOS
Didima is the name for two villages - Mesa and Exo (In and Out)- which are located next to the villages Mirmigi and Tholopotami and between Pagida and Kalimasia. They might be small villages in extent, but in the Medieval times had a great prosperity. Mesa Didima is the birthplace of Emanuel Roidis. And here it is also built the Monastery of Agia Matrona. The first nuns were his sisters. By the time of Turkish domination the Reverent Father Nikiforos the Chian composed there 24 hymns to honor Agia Matrona. Today in the cloister live only 2-3 nuns.

This text is cited Febr 2004 from the Chios Prefecture Tourism Committee URL below.

• http://www.chios.gr/Villages/didima_en.htm