Entrance to Hosios Loukas monastery , Boeotia, Greece, 10th11th
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Monastery of Hosios Loukas 344 reviews #1 of 4 things to do in Distomo Religious Sites Write a review About This is yet another site which I am amazed that you do not yet have a listing for!!!! It is a 10th c. Byzantine Monastery with the "remains" of "Holy Luke"., a great healer of the 10th c. which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and etc., etc.
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» Mosaics and microcosm the monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni
The monastery of Hosiοs Loukas is considered to be one of the largest and most significant monuments of the Middle-Byzantine Period. It is situated near ancient Steirida in a beautiful and unique landscape. The first monastic community was founded by the popular local hermit Hosios (i.e. the Blessed) Loukas himself, who settled there in 946.
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The church complex of St. Loukas - Hosios Loukas - in Phokis is the largest and also the best preserved 11 th -century monastery complex in Greece and a monument on the UNESCO Worldwide Heritage List. It lies on the slopes of Mount Helikon, opposite Parnassos.
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Osios Loukas is the largest and best-perserved monastery complex of the Middle Byzantine Period. In continuous use for centuries, it is a place of cult with a living monastic community.
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Plan of Hosios Loukas, Greece, 11th century, from Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney Howard Barnsley, The Monastery of Saint Luke of Stiris, in Phocis, and the Dependent monastery of Saint Nicolas in the Fields, near Skripou in Boetia (London: Macmillan, 1901) Narthex mosaics, left: a group of women saints, right: Christ washing his disciples' feet, katholikon, Hosios Loukas, Boeotia, 11th.
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Hosios Loukas is the largest of three monasteries surviving from the Middle Byzantine period in Greece. It differs from the Daphnion and Nea Moni in that it is dedicated to a single military saint. St.
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Hosios Loukas is a breath-taking Byzantine monastery in a picturesque valley full of olive and almond trees near the town of Distomo. Hosios Loukas Monastery meaning "Esteemed Saint Luke" was not built in honor of Luke the Evangelist, but was established by the Greek monk Loukas. He was buried in the crypt of the monastery when he died in AD 953.
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The monastery and pilgrimage site of Hosios Loukas (Holy Luke), in Phocis in Central Greece (near to Delphi), is dedicated to a local holy man, Loukas of Stiris (St Luke the Younger), who was born in 896 and moved to the present location of the monastic settlement in 946/7, where he remained till his death in 953. There are two churches on the.
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Monastery of Osios Loukas Byzantine Masterpieces at the foot of Mountain Parnassos On your way up to the slopes of Mt. Parnassos and the archaeological site of Delphi, about 13 km before the town of Aráhova, leave the main road and turn towards the village of Distomο and Stýri.
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The katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas in Phokis is the best preserved smaller centralized churches became common in the period known as the Middle Byzantine era. The late-11th-century monastic church at Daphni, near Athens, is similar to Hosios Loukas in plan, but its mosaics survive in a more fragmentary state.
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Founded in the mid-10th century by the hermit, Osios Loukas (the Venerable Luke) of Steiris, the monastery is Greece's largest and best preserved monument from the Middle Byzantine period (843-1204 AD).
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The First Century of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas NICOLAS OIKONOMIDES he present study has developed from a semi- marking a grave situated in an enclosed space, in a nar held at the University of Athens in 1989- church or, more probably, in a crypt.
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These three monuments—Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni, and Daphni—point to common trends in Middle Byzantine mosaics, while also demonstrating the flexibility of church decoration during this period. View of the naos, katholikon, 11th century, Hosios Loukas, Boeotia (photo: Evan Freeman, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Monastery of Hosios Loukas
The monastery of Hosios Loukas, located in central Greece, is probably the oldest of the three churches.