Tinos
Monasteries
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HOLY TRINITY MONASTERY
Monastery
The Holy Monastery of Agia Triados is built in a green environment and is located east of Chora. Its iconostasis is carved in wood and it maintains an ossuary of Tinian personalities as well as a collection of decorated lintels from the island. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou …»
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PANAGIA OF TINOS
Monastery
The imposing church of Panagia of Tinos was founded in 1823. It is one of the most important and important buildings made of white marble, which is the first remarkable architectural monument of the liberated Greek nation. The central gate of the church is extremely imposing, as well as the …»
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SACRED HEART MONASTERY
Monastery
The Monastery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is considered one of the greatest pilgrimages of the Greek Catholic Church. It is located in Exoburgos and includes, in addition to the temple, a restaurant and dormitories for hosting guests. It was founded by Jesuit monks, who arrived in Tinos at the end …»
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JESUIT MONASTERY
Monastery
The Jesuit Monastery is one of the Catholic monasteries of the island and is located in the village of Loutra. In the monastery building there are dormitories, libraries, a kitchen and a reading room. The Jesuits settled in the village of Loutra in the 1840s, where the church of the monastery …»
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KECHROVOUNI MONASTERY
Monastery
It is the monastery where the nun Pelagia, later Agia, saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that led her to the spot where the miraculous icon of the Evangelistria was located. The nun's cell is preserved to this day, it is eight kilometers from Chora and dominates the top of the mountain. On July 23, …»
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KYRA-XENIS MONASTERY
Monastery
The monastery of Panagia Kyra-Xeni, which was built from 1732 to 1756, is located near the village of Marlas. Tradition says that a ship coming from the Dardanelles ran into bad weather. The captain and the crew begged the Virgin Mary to save them, while he ordered himself to become a monk. While …»
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URSULINE CONVENT
Monastery
The building of the Ursuline Monastery is located in the village of Loutra. The Ursuline Monastery was founded in 1862 and many daughters of well-known Greek families studied there. In the past, it also functioned as an orphanage, a boarding school, a French High School, a university, a Greek …»