frescoes and a magnificent carved wood iconostasis.
The Monastery of Evangelistria has three chapels: Agios Dimitrios, Zoodochos Pigi and the Timios Prodromos (Saint John the Baptist).
The library of the monastery contains various important books and documents and the museum houses the relic of a saint martyred during Ottoman rule, sacred vessels, ecclesiastical objects and post-Byzantine icons.
This monastery has a great importance in Skiathian and Greek history for it was the place were revolutionary fighters against the Turks came to hide, where some of them took the oak of freedom and where the first Greek flag was made.
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beautiful icons on the carved wood 18th century templon.
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Monastery of Panagia Kounistra |
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This post-Byzantine monastery is dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin and is located just above Troulos.
It was built in 1655 and the legend says that, during this period, a monk found the icon of the Virgin (Panaghia Kounistra) hanging from a tree and put it in the monastery which expended with the fame of the miraculous icon.
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found in Greece. It houses the miraculous icon of the Panaghia Kounistra or Eikonistra, patron of Skiathos, beautiful carved wooden icon screen and a large metal circle bearing icons of the apostles and prophets, under which, in Kastro, medieval weddings were performed.
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