The monastery complex

15.12.2020

Restoration works at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi (1997 – 2000)

The Holy Monastery of Vatopedi is a huge building complex with a built-up area of ​​35.000 square meters, while the Sketes and...

24.10.2020

The Tower of Transfiguration

The architect Plutarchos Theocharides speaks about the Tower of the Transfiguration. The tower is originally a 12th century construction, perhaps...

10.10.2020

The building design and the restoration and renovation works of the Monastery

Professor Petros Koufopoulos and Assoc. Professor Stavros Mamaloukos refer to the building study and the restoration works and...

20.05.2015

The wine cellar (wine cellar)

The vagenareion (wine cellar) is located in the northwest corner of the enclosure. It is possibly the "wine cellar", which the "Patria" attribute...

14.05.2011

The chapels of Saint Minas and Saint Theodore

The adjacent chapels of Agios Minas and Agios Theodoros are located in the southwest wing. They were built, together with the building...

14.05.2011

The Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary

The chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is located in the library tower. It belongs to the type of the condensed cruciform inscribed church....

14.05.2011

The chapel of Panagia Paramythia

Between the chapel of Agios Dimitrios and the northern cord, on the floor of the northwest corner of the catholicon, a...

14.05.2011

The Chapel of the Sacred Belt

The chapel of the Sacred Belt is the most interesting of the chapels of the Monastery, since it constitutes in its entirety...