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Brontochion Monastery ( el, Βροντόχιον, Μονή Βροντοχίου) is a monastery in
Brontochion Monastery ( el, Βροντόχιον, Μονή Βροντοχίου) is a monastery in Mystras
Mystras or Mistras ( el, Μυστρᾶς/Μιστρᾶς), also known in the ''Chronicle of the Morea'' as Myzithras (Μυζηθρᾶς), is a fortified town and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality in Laconia, Peloponn ...
, Greece.
The abbot Pachomius incorporated into it the small church of the Hodegetria
A Hodegetria , ; russian: Одиги́трия, Odigítria ; Romanian: Hodighitria, or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him as the source of salv ...
, or "Aphentikon", as the monastery's catholicon. The church was reconstructed and completed around 1310, with some scholars giving 1308-1312 as the construction dates and others 1310–1322. The despot Theodore I Palaiologos
Theodore I Palaiologos (or Palaeologus) ( el, Θεόδωρος Α΄ Παλαιολόγος, translit=Theodōros I Palaiologos) (c. 1355 – 24 June 1407) was despot (''despotēs'') in the Morea from 1383 until his death on 24 June 1407. A son of Em ...
, who died in 1407, is buried here.
During Ottoman rule, the monastery was converted into a mosque.
See also
*History of Roman and Byzantine domes
Domes were a characteristic element of the architecture of Ancient Rome and of its medieval continuation, the Byzantine Empire. They had widespread influence on contemporary and later styles, from Russian architecture, Russian and Ottoman archit ...
References
Byzantine monasteries in Greece 14th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings Mystras Buildings and structures in Laconia Mosques converted from churches in Ottoman Greece Former mosques in Greece {{Greece-christian-monastery-stub