Petraki Monastery (Attica)

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Coordinates: 37 ° 58 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 23 ° 44 ′ 58 ″  E The Moni Petraki Monastery ( Greek Μονή Πετράκη , dt. 'Monastery of Petrakis') or Monastery of the Agii Asomati Taxiarches (Άγιοι Ασώματοι Ταξιάρχες,' Sacred Disembodied Archangel ') is a monastery with a Byzantine church in Athens , a few hundred meters south of Lykavittos . It was named after the monk Parthenios Petrakis (Παρθένιος Πετράκης), who renovated it in 1673.

history

The monastery was originally the Patriarch assumed and called himself Koukopouli (Κουκοπούλι). It belonged to the possessions of the Karea monastery (Μονή Καρέα) on the Hymettos . Later the monks moved to the Asomaton Monastery for security reasons. When the capital of Greece was relocated from Nafplio to Athens in 1834 , the monastery served as a powder store.

architecture

The church dates from the 13th or 14th century and has a cruciform floor plan with a dome supported by four Corinthian columns ( cross- domed church ). Two vestibules were subsequently added to this building .

literature

  • Anastasios Orlandos : Μεσαιωνικά μνημεία της πεδιάδος των Αθηνών και των κλιτυών Υμηττού - Πεντελικοα, Πγληθεθ. Vol. 1, Τύποις «ΕΣΤΙΑ», Athens 1933, pp. 125–128 ( full text ).