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Brontochion Monastery ( el, Βροντόχιον, Μονή Βροντοχίου) is a monastery in Mystras, Greece. The abbot Pachomius incorporated into it the small church of the
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, 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, 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


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