ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY | Skopelos | Sporades | Golden Greece

Skopelos

ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY

The Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi or Panagia tis Livadiotissa, is an old share of Saint Catherine of Sinai. Its katholikon is a one-room private church with a wooden roof. Important images are kept there, such as his late-Byzantine boat icon which depicts the Dormition of the Virgin in the center and around it the 24 houses of the Akathistos Hymn in miniature, and the icon of Panagia Zoodochos Pigi, the work of the Cretan painter Antonios Agorastos (1676), which is considered miraculous.

Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou