Tag Archives: exonarthex

2246 – Xiropotamou monastery: the phiale and the exo-narthex – part 3

Posted on August 19, 2022 by athosweblog

I started my story of a visit to Xiropotamou in 2019 February this year, with an photo essay of the outside walls and drone footage (post 2234). In the next post – part 2 – I payed attention to the … Continue reading →

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2194 – Grigoriou monastery: a closer look and ‘crushing’ the olives

Posted on February 9, 2021 by athosweblog

Let’s resume the post about Grigoriou monastery, that I visited on the 2nd of October 2019. I started in post 2156 in Juli last year by showing pictures of the trapeza. Today we will continue, starting in the second courtyard, … Continue reading →

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2149 – random photos in chronological order – no 4

Posted on June 19, 2020 by athosweblog

I will start this post with four photographs from the first (?) Athos bus, a Mercedes Benz, that arrived on Athos during the millenium celebrations in 1963. This picture is at the arsanas of Iviron dates from this period. On … Continue reading →

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2062 – Xenofontos, a photo survey within the monastery, part 3

Posted on July 10, 2019 by athosweblog

In post 2057 and 2061 I showed the first two courtyards of Xenofontos monastery (the red letters A and B on the map below). Today we will take a closer look at courtyard C, that lies between the new katholicon … Continue reading →

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1981 – Lavra, a close-up look

Posted on February 19, 2018 by athosweblog

Time to take a close-up look at Lavra, to watch some details. The fountain in front of the catholicon was not working. The eagle spreads its wings. It doesn’t have two heads as might be expected. Below it we see … Continue reading →

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1548 – Stained glas in the exo-narthex

Posted on May 16, 2014 by athosweblog

When entering the main church of the monasteries you will be in the exo-narthex.  Church windows are usually fitted with stained glass as you can see here in the exo-narthex of the Romanian Skite Podromou.This is a window in the … Continue reading →

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1507 – Skiti Agiou Dimitriou: frescoes from the exonarthex – 2

Posted on February 2, 2014 by athosweblog

Today I will show you the remaining scenes from the lithi/exonarthex of Skiti Dimitriou. The images are rare and not shown before in any book I know or on the internet. Most of the pictures here concern the life of … Continue reading →

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