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Athens Monastery Tour
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Type: Single-day activity
Duration: 6 hours
* Dau Penteli is a remote settlement, east of the mountain, in the area where the Holy Monastery of Christ Pantokrator is located, where children with mental problems are housed in the institution of the same name. It borders Kallitehnoupoli and Neo Wutza. He was threatened by fires in 2005 and 2018. The name of the Tao came from a corruption of the name "TAO", which was the old nickname of the monastery. This nickname is given to the monogram that existed at the entrance to the monastery and seemed to read as "TAO.
During the Byzantine period, it was the second most important monastery in the Balkans, with more than six hundred monks. The monastery of Pantokrator or the Almighty in the town of Dau Pendeli on the picturesque coast of Attica was founded in the 9th century. With a tragic story and the relics of the martyred monks who died within its walls. The architecture of the towering temple is clearly different from the established Greek standards, as a result of which this building is radically different in appearance from all other Greek Orthodox churches.
In 1963, after almost three centuries of neglect, a modern women's fraternity gradually settled here. At the same time, reconstruction work that began in the same year brought changes and new buildings in the area. Over its long history, it has experienced a series of destruction and looting, multiple attacks, and at least three total destructions.
The Holy Monastery of St. Ephraim (Nea Makri) is one of the oldest monasteries, today it is a convent. The monastery of St. Ephraim is located on Mount Amomon (mountain of the pure) - Pentelicon, in the area of Xylokeriza, on the same site since the 10th century AD.
The holy relics of St. Ephraim were miraculously found several decades ago. Today, the monastery of St. Ephraim has become one of the largest pilgrimage centers in Attica and throughout Greece.
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