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Christianity sacred sites in Greece
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Agia Triada Monastery
Chania, Crete, Greece
Agia Triada Monastery rises from the Akrotiri Peninsula near Chania, a 17th-century complex where Renaissance proportions serve Orthodox devotion....
Chrysoskalitissa Monastery
Chrisoskalitissa, Crete, Greece
Chrysoskalitissa Monastery stands on a rock promontory thirty-five meters above the southwestern coast of Crete, overlooking the Libyan Sea toward Africa....
Church of Panagia Chrisopigi, Sifnos Island
Φάρος, South Aegean, Greece
Panagia Chrysopigi sits on a rocky islet off the southern coast of Sifnos, connected to the island by a slender bridge....
Holy Cave of the Apocalypse
Between Skala and Chora, South Aegean, Greece
In this small cave on Patmos, tradition holds that Saint John received the Book of Revelation nearly two thousand years ago....
Holy Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Patmos
Patmos, South Aegean, Greece
The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian crowns the island of Patmos, built above the cave where Saint John received the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation....
Meteora
Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece
Meteora rises from the western edge of the Thessaly plain in central Greece, a forest of sandstone pillars reaching up to 400 meters, crowned by six active Orthodox...
Monastery of Arkadi
Municipality of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
On a fertile plateau above the olive groves of western Crete, the Monastery of Arkadi holds two kinds of sacred weight....
Monastery of Hozoviótissa, Amorgos Island
Amorgos, South Aegean, Greece
The Monastery of Hozoviótissa clings to a sheer cliff face on Amorgos, eight levels of whitewashed stone barely five meters wide, rising 300 meters above the Aegean....
Mt. Athos
monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece
Mount Athos rises 2,033 meters above the Aegean at the tip of a forested peninsula in northern Greece....
Paliani Monastery
Paliani Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece
Paliani Monastery stands among olive groves near the village of Venerato, twenty kilometers southwest of Heraklion....
Panagia Kera
Agios Nikolaos Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece
Panagia Kera stands among olive groves on the road to Kritsa in eastern Crete, a small three-aisled Byzantine church whose interior holds what scholars consider the finest...
Panagia Krimniotissa
Municipality of Samothraki, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Panagia Krimniotissa perches at 311 meters on a cliff edge of Samothrace, a small white chapel built where a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary refused to be moved....
Roussanou Monastery
Part of Meteora
Kalabaka, Thessaly, Greece
Roussanou Monastery fills a narrow summit at Meteora, making the monastic choice of separation visible in stone, stairs, and height....
Tinos
Tinos, South Aegean, Greece
Panagia Evangelistria stands at the top of a long marble road in the port town of Tinos, holding an icon of the Annunciation unearthed in 1823 after a nun's visions....
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