Narthex fresco in the Catholicon at Pantocrator

Narthex fresco in the Catholicon at Pantocrator

1997-05-29

Interior view of the catholicon or communal church of the Pantocrator Monastery. The photograph shows a fresco of Saint John the Baptist (Forerunner) located in the narthex (litii) of the catholicon. The painting program of the original 14th-century church was covered by new paintings in 1854 by Matthaios Ioannou of Naoussa. An icon of Christ is located below the fresco and the doorway to the left leads into the main nave of the church. The monastery of Pantocrator was recognized as a monastery in the mid-14th century. Before then it was a loosely knit center of kelli (‘cells’ or monastic living quarters). Its founders are Alexios and Ioannis who were supported by their relative John V Palaiologos. The monastery also enjoyed later endowments from Manuel II Palaiologos, and (after the fall of Constantinople) the Danubian princes. The monastery suffered a devastating fire in 1773 and its reconstruction was aided by the financial support of Catherine the Great of Russia. The tower dates b

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