Agia Paraskevi (Kalogeros)
| Agia Paraskevi (Αγία Παρασκευή) | ||
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 Location of the chapel in a depression in the valley |
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| place | Amari Basin , Crete | |
| Construction year | 13th Century | |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 14 '49.6 " N , 24 ° 39' 8.9" E | |
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| Cross-domed church | ||
Agia Paraskevi ( Greek Αγία Παρασκευή ) is a chapel in the Amari Basin , a fertile valley in the regional district of Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete . It stands as a single building about 900 meters away from the next settlement, the place Kalogeros (Καλόγερος). The small church is dedicated to Saint Paraskevi of Ikonion (also Paraskeva Pjatnitza ), a Christian martyr who lived under Emperor Antoninus Pius in the 2nd century or under Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century and was beheaded for her faith.
location
The chapel of Agia Paraskevi is located about 21 kilometers southeast of the prefecture capital Rethymno in the middle of the Amari basin (Αμάρι). Their location is in a lowland of the Asomathianos Kambos plain , which is named after the former monastery Moni Asomaton one kilometer in the southeast of Agia Paraskevi. The small church stands on the edge of a wet meadow next to a group of trees to the south.
Northeast above the band of the road runs Agia Fotini (Αγία Φωτεινή), the capital of the municipality Syvritos , which also belongs Agia Paraskevi according Fourfouras (Φουρφουράς) in the east district adjacent Kourites the municipality (Δήμος Dimos ) Amari . The municipality of Syvritos occupies the western part of the Amari basin, which is irrigated by the small river Platy (Πλατύ) with its tributaries. The distance from the chapel to Agia Fotini is about 1.8 kilometers. Closest towns on the road are Kalogeros (Καλόγερος) in the northwest and Vistagi (Βισταγή) in the east.
description
Agia Paraskevi is a whitewashed small cross-domed church . The central structure of the floor plan of a Greek cross carries a means of drum on the crossing patch dome in the middle of the structure. The roofs of the chapel, which probably dates from the 13th century, are covered with red tiles of the “ monk and nun ” type. On the facade of the southern arm of the cross, the central entrance leads into the church. The east-facing cross arm of the chapel with the altar has a semicircular apse that is also recognizable in the exterior . A wooden iconostasis separating the chancel from the chancel contains four embedded icons . Saint Paraskevi is depicted on the icon on the left .
The stone floor in the interior is natural, the walls are whitewashed and the vault is painted light blue. Opposite the entrance in the northern cross arm is an arcosol tomb . The brick grave is covered with a glass plate through which one can look inside.
On the wall of the arched niche above the grave is a now poorly preserved fresco from the middle of the 14th century, which shows four people adoring a bust of Jesus . Above the two figures on the right there is an inscription: Deësis ton doulon tou theou Georgiou tou Chortatze ka tes symbios autou (' Deësis of the servant of God Georgios Chortatzes and his wife'). Which member of the well-known Cretan family of the Chortatzes is meant by this cannot be clarified.
The chapel of Agia Paraskevi was restored in 1888. Its frescoes in the interior, which is open to the public during the day, are in a poor state of preservation.
literature
- Klaus Gallas, Klaus Wessel, Manolis Borboudakis: Byzantine Crete. Hirmer, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7774-3240-7 , p. 274 fig. 231.
- Ioannis Spatharakis: Byzantine wall paintings of Crete. Volume 3: Amari province. Alexandros Press, Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-94-90387-00-6 , pp. 102-103 Fig. 295-299.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete Lexicon of Saints - Parasceve, p. (2). www.zeno.org, accessed on August 6, 2010 .
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints - Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. www.heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on August 6, 2010 .
- ^ Johannes Madey: Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 1115-1117.
- ↑ Ioannis Spatharakis: Byzantine wall paintings of Crete. Volume 3: Amari province. Alexandros Press, Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-94-90387-00-6 , pp. 102-103.
- ^ Agia Paraskevi Church, Asomaton. www.intocrete.net, accessed August 5, 2010 .
Web links
- Agia Paraskevi. Archaeological Atlas of Crete: Archaeological Sites. Forth: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, accessed October 10, 2016 .
- Rethymno Prefecture - Churches and Monasteries ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )