- The
Protaton (Gr****: Πρωτάτο), also
known as the
Dormition of the
Theotokos Church (Gr****: Ναός Κοίμησης της Θεοτόκου), is the main
church of Karyes, Mount...
- is the
Protaton,
which is the
church of the Protos, or
president of the
monastic community. The
famed Axion Estin icon is kept at the
Protaton. Each of...
-
Megisti Lavra, and the
Protaton Church in Karyes. His most
important work is the
mural painting of the
church of the
Protaton. His
contemporaries were...
- in the late 10th century. At Karyes, the icon is
currently kept in the
Protaton.
According to tradition, an
Elder and his
disciple lived in a cell on Mount...
-
arrived on
Mount Athos. In 962 he
built the
large central church of the
Protaton in Karyes. In the next year, with the
support of his
friend Emperor Nicephorus...
-
monastery its
first charter in 972. This charter,
which is kept at the
Protaton in
Karyes today, is also
known as the
Tragos ('goat'),
since it was written...
-
Saint Euthymius of
Athos A
fresco of
Euthymius from the
Protaton Church at Karyes,
Mount Athos Athonite Father Born c. 955 Meskheti,
Kingdom of the Iberians...
-
decapitated several abbots from
monasteries such as
Zograf Monastery, Vatopedi,
Protaton,
among others. Not even the
Monastery of
Iviron was
spared their wrath...
- he had made a
final visit to
Mount Athos to
witness the
blessing of the
Protaton Tower at
Karyes (the
capital of the
monastic community),
which had been...
-
Kastamonitou (see fig. 58), Xeropotamou, Koutloumousiou, Xenophontos,
Iveron and
Protaton he
mentions without any designation;
while Lavra,
Vatopedi (see fig. 59)...
