Holy Monastery of St Georgios Kamitsianis

Monastery of Kamitsianis or Kamymynis is on the left of the road leading to Tsamanta from Kamitsni, 32 km from Filiates. ). The original year of establishment of the monastery is unknown. According to the universal inscription, it was rebuilt in the 18th century (1758-1773) by Jeromonal Palace, with the urgent and homonym of Bishop of Vella and Combuses, on the ruins of the pre-existing monastery that was destroyed – unknown era. “Until the 17th century. The monastery seems to have been a monastic school. A dominant form was the last abbot Damianos, whose bust adorns the entrance. ” The monastery was the Episcopal Temple of the settlement and the Abbot of the Monastery was at the same time Bishop of Kamitsianis, Grasseros and Glykyos. ” From the richest monasteries of Greece held forests, farmland, vineyards and large olive groves, pastures, sheep and goat herds, mills and many (Ministry of Culture and Sport, 2012) and its presence in the area was significant (Chamber of Thesprotia, 2013). According to Nitus (1865-1940), the monastery had numerous cells, galleys, halls, restaurants, warehouses, stables and generally all the necessary. It is a crossbred three-aisled basilica with a dome, consisting of a small propyl, mainly temple and holy step. Today only the stylish katholikon is preserved, which belongs to the type of composite cruciform after dome. ). His hagiographies according to the Obsessant Inscription at Western Entrance – 16 years were made after the reconstruction of the monastery (according to a corresponding brick on its outer southern side) and in particular in 1789 and are one of the few preserved fresco sets throughout Thesprotia. The wood-carved iconostasis dates back to the same time, while the rest of the building complex is corrupted. “At the foundation level, the buildings in which the cells were housed, the bank and other auxiliary spaces in the north, western and south side of the complex”. According to the local tradition, in the Philippetry and a crankness of the last abbot Damianos – in his years, he experienced a great edge – due to the inclusion of the Mourgana region in the Greek Territory, when defining the Borders of Greece-Albania. ) “Celebrates the day of Agios Georgios Day on April 23 or Easter Monday with the participation of many pilgrims.” Unfortunately, at the end of frescoes cleaning (2019), the building’s static issues were found and it was considered non-visited. Since then, even his celebration is done in the accommodation. Tained. At the Ephorate of Antiquities, “According to tradition, the name of the monastery is due to the General of Byzantium Kanyyde, who – after the raid of the Goths in 560 AD. And the catastrophe of the butchery – builds in the area of ​​the settlement of Kamitsianis. “