Brontochion Monastery ( el, Βροντόχιον, Μονή Βροντοχίου) is a monastery in
Mystras, 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 s ...
, 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
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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
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