Kozani
Monasteries
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MONASTERY OF ASCENSION
Monastery
It is a women's Monastery, near the city's airport, founded in 1945 by a royal decree by the Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani Kon. Back (1945-1957). It functioned as a Monastery, in the place of an older church of the Ascension of the Savior, with 3 nuns until 1957, when it was abolished and …»
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HILARION MONASTERY
Monastery
This is the historical monastery of Agia Triada which is more widely known as Hilarion Monastery. The monastery was founded at the end of the 11th century. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou …»
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MONASTERY OF THE DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF MIKROKASTRO
Monastery
It was founded in 1753 and is located in a position with a panoramic view of Voio. The Monastery had an important action in the national struggles. In the Monastery there is also the miraculous icon of the Virgin of Eleusis, made mainly of silver. On the 15th of August, during the Panagiri festival, …»
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MONASTERY OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE SAVIOR OF DRYOVOUNO
Monastery
The monastery was founded in 1592 and its iconography was completed in 1652. The monastery was visited by Kosmas the Aetolos where he taught the Divine Word. At that time the monks were suffering from an epidemic. Kosmas Aitolos brought water from a nearby spring, performed a consecration and when …»
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MONASTERY OF PANAGIA OF DRYOVOUNO
Monastery
This is the women's Monastery of Genesiou of Theotokos located in the village of Dryovouno at an altitude of 800 m, on the border with the Prefecture of Kastoria. At this point, there was an older church, with Byzantine frescoes in the holy pulpit, which was destroyed. The Monastery ceases to …»
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MONASTERY OF PANAGIA OF ZIDANIO
Monastery
It was founded in the 17th century. The miraculous icon of Panagia Zidaniotissa is kept in the monastery. Every year the icon is transferred to the city of Kozani where on Thomas Sunday there is a pandemonium procession and then it remains for a certain period of time in the Eborian temples of the …»
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