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Panaghia Skripou

Δημοτική Ενότητα Ορχομενού, Italy

Panaghia Skripou

The Panagia Skripou Monastery (Greek: Μοναστήρι Παναγία η Σκριπού) is located in Orchomenus, Boeotia, Greece. From the monastery today, only its katholikon (church) functions, which is the most important monument from the series of temples of the "transitional cruciform" type, in the Greek area. Mos

t probably the temple was designed as a funerary monument for its sponsor, Leo, the Protospatharios of the palace guard of the Byzantine Emperor (873/874 AD). A vertical sundial adorns the church of the Dormition of Theotokos (Catholic) of the monastery.

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