Provata ( el, Προβάτα) is an area of
Mount Athos
Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the peni ...
that belongs to the Monastery of
Great Lavra
The Monastery of Great Lavra ( el, Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας) is the first monastery built on Mount Athos. It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of . The founding of the monastery in AD 963 by Athanasi ...
.
It is close to the Monastery of
Karakallou
The Karakallou Monastery ( el, Μονή Καρακάλλου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It stands on the south-eastern side of the peninsula and ranks eleventh in the hierarchy of the Athonite ...
. This is where many people place the Skete of Glossia, which flourished in the 14th century.
Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas ( el, Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς; c. 1296 – 1359) was a Byzantine Greek theologian and Eastern Orthodox cleric of the late Byzantine period. A monk of Mount Athos (modern Greece) and later archbishop of Thessaloniki, h ...
lived in this skete in the 14th century.
At the beginning of the century there were 17 cells inhabited by about 100 monks. The oldest of the surviving cells is that of St. George, with frescoes dating from 1635.
References
Populated places in Mount Athos
Great Lavra
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