The
church is near the village of Moni in the area of Tragaia.
Panagaia Drosiani, formerly the main church of a monastery, is one
of the most important, oldest churches in the Balcan and is still in
use.
It is an Early Christian,
triapsidal
church with a dome. Three single-room
chapels are incorporated along the northern side.
The church is a rarity for Greece as a whole in that it preserves wall-paintings
from before the time of the iconoclastic controversy.
The
interior wall surfaces have wall paintings of various phases. The earliest
layer
of wall paintings, which dates to the end of the 6th and beginning
of the 7th centuries has been revealed in the dome, the sanctum and
in the northern apse. The latest layer on both dome and apse is datable
to the 13th and 14th centuries; it has been removed from the wall.
Open hours: daily
Telephone: (+30) 2850 31003
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