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LAGKADA (Village) AMORGOS
Agia Triada - Hanging on a ledge under an overhang, the small Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) church, reminds of the position and appearance of Hozoviotissa. It was built during the years of piracy and it was used as an occasional hiding place for the Aegialis population. It is only 5 minutes walk from Lagada village, and overlooks the whole area of Tholaria, Lagada, and the valley of Aegialis with the port. There is a spring festival every year, 50 days after Greek easter.
MONI (Village) NAXOS
The church is near the village of Moni in the area of Tragaia, Naxos. It is an Early Christian, tri-apsidal church with a dome. Three single-room chapels are incorporated along the northern side. The interior wall surfaces have wall paintings of various phases.The earliest layer of wall paintings, which dates to the end of the 6th and beginning of the 7th centuries has been revealed in the dome, the sanctum and in the northern apse. The latest layer on both dome and apse is datable to the 13th and 14th centuries; it has been removed from the wall.
The church was probably originally the Katholikon of the Monastery. Later on, information about the Drosiane is given by the Duke of the Aegean Sea, Ioannes IV Crispos (1555) and others. In addition, benedictory inscriptions of the 6th and 7th centuries are preserved on the walls.
The church was restored in 1964. Cleaning of the wall paintings and removal of the most recent layers has been carried out over the years 1964 - 1971.
This text is cited Mar 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.
This is a Byzantine church of the 11th-13th century in a cave located on the Profitis Elias hill.
Tel: +30 22850 71212, 71274
CHILIA VRYSSI (Settlement) NAXOS
Tel: +30 22850 63266
MONASTERY CHOZOVIOTISSA (Monastery) AMORGOS
Tel: +30 22850 71274
The Byzantine Monastery of Panagia Chozoviotissa is located on a steep cliff, 300 m. above sea level,
which overhangs the southeastern coast of the capital (Chora) of Amorgos.
The position, inaccessible and imposing, is visible only from the sea.
The name of the monastery is a corruption of the name Choziva or Koziva, a location in the Holy Land,
where the Orthodox monastic tradition flourished since the early Christian times. In the oral tradition of Amorgos survived
the narrative of the miraculous advent of the icon of Panagia on the island during the period of Iconoclasm. The monastery
heirlooms include two icons bearing the inscription ΧΩΖΗΒΙΤΙCΑΣ (CHOZIVITISSA). In fact, the co-study of Byzantine historical
sources, of the events of this turbulent era in the eastern Mediterranean and in Palestine, and of later ecclesiastical documents
(codices and patriarchal sigillia) suggests that the first building on site dates to the 9th century AD, when the icon first came on the island,
thus supporting the oral tradition.
Decisive evidence regarding the foundation history of the monastery provides the inscription preserved on a silver hexapterygon
(metal disk with a representation of the six-winged Serapheim) of 1652, according to which the monastery was rebuilt (or fundamentally renovated)
by the Byzantine emperor Alexios A’ Komninos (1081-1118), whose decree of 1088, giving stauropegic rights to the monastery, is also known to us
from literary ecclesiastical sources.
Hence a Middle- and Late Byzantine monument, the monastery comprises a building complex, fully incorporated to its surrounding environment.
The steep uneven land imposed a multi-level plan evolved in eight floors, so that the monument seems like a white expansion of the rock. At the centre of the
complex lies the small vaulted church, which is surrounded by the numerous monks cells, along with a series of auxiliary spaces (kitchen, bakery, storerooms,
wine press), cisterns and wells. Staircases, built or carved in the rock, lead from one level to another. In terms of layout, building technique and architectural
form the complex is a typical example of the popular island architecture of Greece, preserving additionally important elements of the past, such as the Byzantine
arches or the pointed arches of the Venetian period (1296-1537).
An exhibition of the monastery heirlooms was organized in 1978 and is open since then to the public. Among the most important exhibits of the
collection are:
- Codices in pergamene (10th- 15th centuries) or paper (13th-19th centuries), sigillia and printed Evangelia.
- Important specimens of ecclesiastical gold-embroidery decorated with precious stones. Also metal components of clerical vestments created by several workshops
of silver craft. In their majority the exhibits date to the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Valuable ecclesiastical objects and vessels, such as icons, crosses, chalices, candle stands, oil candles etc.
MONI CHRYSSOSTOMOU (Monastery) NAXOS
Tel: +30 22850 22401
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