ELLOPOS Photo Blog

This monastery stands near Vassilika of Thessaloniki, at the foot of Omvrianos summit, and belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It honors both Saint Anastasia and Saint Theophano, the byzantine empress and wife of Leon the 6th, of the Macedonian dynasty, as the first benefactor and founder of the monastery in the year 888. It was rebuilt in 1522 by Saint Theonas, who later became metropolitan bishop of Thessaloniki. During the Turkish domination, the monastery owned many acres of land in Thessaloniki, Chalkidiki and Russia, but it was destroyed by the Turks during the Greek War of Independence of 1821, as the monastery’s ships participated at the sea battle against the Turks at Toroneos gulf. The reconstruction of the monastery took place in 1832, but the treasures and the valuable manuscripts as the whole library where gone forever.

• Saint Anastasia, connecting Rome with Greece
• A closer look at the monastery of St Anastasia, Chalkidiki
• Saints Anargyroi church, St Anastasia Monastery surroundings.
• Christ of Votsas
• Yard of Pogoniotissa
• Windows, The Holy Monastery of Transfiguration
• Theophaneia Church
• The Virgin’s birth home, Jerusalem
• The Sphinx of Meteora
• The Holy Monastery of St Sabbas in Palestine