Today we take a closer look at the last two buildings of the Chromitsa metochi, numbers G and J on the map below:

The large building G, with its different architecture with a large balcony that runs around it, the rounded corners and with a built-inn church, is still in use by some Russian monks. The other building J is a church, with a graveyard around it and a ossuary on the ground floor.

Building G, with vines around and stairs that lead up to the terrace

On the terrace of building G: looking back through the grapevines: builing A and E

Building G in detail: the large balcony with a magnificant view over the sea and the peninsula. The church is on the right

The “built-inn church”

I found this picture from an iconostasis of church in Chromitsa on the internet: although I am not quite sure, I think this must the interior of the small “built-inn church”.

The building G was build in 1908: that makes it 23 year younger than the nearby watertap from 1885. This information also proves that building A/B, the hospital/winery, is build after the year 1908 (also see post 1375).

Building G seen from the other side, with an annex attached to main building.

The passage between builing G and its annex.

Church J

Church J: on the ground floor you can find the ossuary and on the first floor a church

Again a picture of a iconostasis that I found on the internet, probably of building J

The front of the building, with on the first floor a church

The door to the church on the first floor was closed: I could peep through a hole and I saw skulls lying on the ground.

The ground floor / ossuary in 2011: it is clear that restauration activities are taking place: below two pictures of the old situation and how it would be nowadays.

The graveyard: all bones of the deceased monks bones are exhumed and kept in a ossuary

Even the old clothes and the shoes of the monk are placed in a basked.

Two pictures from the internet of the graveyard

Because time was running out and I had to join the group for a winetasting, I did not have the opportunity the photograph building H: here a photo, also from the internet:

Building H

This is a picture of one of the surrounding (storage?) buildings, in the left corner in the picture below.

And the last pictures I want to show you are from an artificial lake somewhere near Chromitsa (also found on the internet), dating from 1901.

Wim, 30/4