Location information

Monastery of St. Minas at Perichora

ALISTRATI (Small town) SERRES
Tel: +30 23240 31519

Monastery of St. Kyriaki at Alistrati

Tel: +30 23240 31499
  On the road from Serres to Drama, at 2 km before the village Alsitrati, emerges through the thick vegetation the St. Kiriaki Holy Monastery, considered to be among the oldest ones together with the Blessed Virgin Mary Ikosifinissa Holy Monastery. Very often devastated by the Turks it preserves only the main gate.
  Its reconstruction started in 1956, the date on which the today’s (1997) Superior was settled here. Initially the Monastery was a monks’ Abbey and during the year 1906 it housed 95 monks.
  There is no guest house and today it houses 2 Nuns. The feast day of the Monastery is on 7 July to commemorate Great Martyr Kiriaki.
This text (extract) is cited September 2003 from the Prefecture of Serres tourist pamphlet.

Monastery of St. Paraskevi at Domiros

DOMIROS (Village) SERRES
Tel: +30 23240 71362
  The St. Paraskevi Holy Monastery stands to the south of the department of Serres, some 2 km from the village Domiros and 5 km from the foothill of Pangeo Mountain.
  The exact date of the foundation of the Monastery is still unknown. However, it is still considered among the oldest Monasteries of our country.
  According to one version and given that the printed books and the codex of the Monastery have been destroyed by various invaders, the Monastery is considered to be a former metochi (dependency) of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ikosifinissa Monastery. Furthermore, the Monastery is closely related with the Center of monastic life, the Holy Mount. According to a diary of the Iviron Abbey, the ruler of Serbia, Stephen Dushan confirmed the Monastery to the Iviron Abbey in 1345.
  Until the year 1924 the Monastery was often devastated by various invaders. Until then the Monastery was inhabited only by monks.
  In 1924 with the uprooting of the communities of Pontus (the region of northeastern Anatolia, bording on the Black Sea), 6 Nuns from the St. John Prodromos Monastery situated at Imavra in Pontus, joined the Monastery. At this time the Monastery was completely derelict. The only thing remaining was the church and some icons. The Nuns transferred to their new home anything they could from the heirlooms of St. John Prodromos Monastery (the majority of the icons of the iconostasis, liturgical objects, Gospels, Holy Relics etc.).
  Afterwards, the Monastery started to be rebuilt. Its present form (1997) is due to the superhuman efforts of the Superior, who since 1988 has transformed the Monastery into a real worksite. It is the first women’s Monastery in Macedonia. Today it houses 11 Nuns occupied with hagiography, needlework etc. The guest house of the Monastery can accommodate organized tourist groups. The feast day of the Monastery is on 26 July to commemorate Saint Martyr Paraskevi.
This text (extract) is cited September 2003 from the Prefecture of Serres tourist pamphlet.

Official WebSite
• http://www.im-agparaskevis.gr

Ιστοσελίδα Δήμου Ροδολίβους
• http://www.rodolivos.gr/index.php?option=displaypa...

Monastery of Icosifinissa

MONI EIKOSSIFONISSIS (Monastery) SERRES
An imposing monastery on Mount Pangeon with 150 cells and wide courtyards. It is religious and national center, unique for its rare icons and the precious donations. Starting from here their wandering its monks succeeded to preserve the Greek spirit and the Christian religion in difficult ages. Nowadays it is a nunnery.

Kavala Municipality Tourist Enterprise WebPage
• http://www.detakav.gr/htms/english/religionen.htm (2 img.)
Municipality of Kavala WebPage
• http://www.cityofkavala.gr/pub/el/city/tour/ikosif... (3 img.)

Monastery of the Ascension of Christ at Proti

PROTI (Small town) SERRES
Tel: +30 23240 61249
  The Ascension Holy Monastery stands at 7 km from the village of Proti, at an altitude of 930 m on Pangeo Mountain, offering a panoramic view over the valley of Serres.
  Former metochi (dependency) of the Holy Monastery of Blessed Virgin Mary Ikosifinissa, it was reestablished in 1979 at the same location where in the 18th century stood the monks’ Monastery of the same name.
  The Monastery contributed a lot to the Christians of the region and that resulted in repeated devastation by the Turk and the Bulgarian invaders, the most severe having occurred in the years 1913, 1917 and 1944.
  The Katholikon (main church) of the Monastery is a rare cruciform Rotunda built according to the form of the Holy Ascension Monastery situated at the Mount of Olives in the Holy Land. The Monastery preserves the holy relics of the Saints I. Chrisostomos, Arsenios the Capadokos etc.
  In the Monastery there is a guest house operating exclusively for groups of tourists. Today (1997) the Monastery houses 20 Nuns occupied with hagiography, sacerdotal needlecraft, gold embroidered pieces, pyrography and ceroplasty.
  The feast day of the Monastery is the day of the Ascension, 40 days after Easter.
This text (extract) is cited September 2003 from the Prefecture of Serres tourist pamphlet.