In nr 1163 I promised to show some detailed pictures of this monastery:
Trapeza/Refectory Grigoriou – see plan on 1168, nr 4
Next to the trapeza is the kitchen (F):
A relatively modern kitchen, with a espresso machine. Look at the two clocks in the left upper corner: one for the "Athos"-time and one for the outher-world, our time ?
The entrance to the osios Grigorios chapel (T on the map), wth five fine mosaics of the Pantocrator, diciples and saints. Again, two clocks, showing two different times, hang on the wall on the right!
On the outside wall of the refectory you can finds two icons:
Icon of Christ
A wonderfull icon of the Mother of God with her child Jezus
Door with inlaid wood – I forgot where this door leads to, it is near the entrance of the Katholicon.
On the left side of the entrance to the Katholicon you can see a painting of Archangel Michael
And the right side a painting of Archangel Gabriel
Icon of the Prodromos (John the Forerunner)
Icon from 1991 with Saint Barnabas and the diciple Paulos offering a church
Wim, 16/1