The Skete of St Anne is a dependent idiorrhythmic ( hermitage-style)

skete A skete ( ) is a monastic community in Eastern Christianity that allows relative isolation for monks, but also allows for communal services and the safety of shared resources and protection. It is one of four types of early monastic orders, al ...

, a monastic community attached to the more formalised Great Lavra Monastery in

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 penins ...

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. It lies on the shore of the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...

about 800 metres from the

New Skete New Skete may refer to: * New Skete (Mount Athos), Greece *New Skete (New York) New Skete is the collective term for two Orthodox Christian monastic communities in Cambridge, New York (geographically in the Town of White Creek): *The Monks of ...

. The hamlet of

Vouleftiria Vouleftiria ( el, Βουλευτήρια) is an area of Mount Athos that belongs to the Monastery of Great Lavra. Located directly downhill from the main area of the Skete of Saint Anne, it is served by the port (''arsanas'') of Saint Anne (Agia ...

is located in the lower (western) part of the skete.

History

The ''kyriakon'' (central church) of the Skete of Saint Anne was built in 1680 when the skete was being enlarged by Patriarch

Dionysius III of Constantinople Dionysius III was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from June 29, 1662 to October 21, 1665. He had previously been bishop of Thessaloniki, Larissa (1652–1662) and Bursa.Venance Grumel, ''Traité d'études byzantines'', « I. La Chro ...

List of cells

List of

cells Cell most often refers to: * Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life Cell may also refer to: Locations * Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery w ...

and other buildings in Agia Anna Skete:

Notable people

Cyril V of Constantinople Cyril V Karakallos ( el, ), (? – 27 July 1775) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods from 1748 to 1751 and from 1752 to 1757. A controversial figure, often blamed for his ideas about the baptism, in 1755 he issued the ''O ...

Nicodemus of Elbasan The new martyr Nicodemus also known as Saint Nicodemus of Berat (Albanian: ''Shën Nikodhimi i Beratit'') was born in Vithkuq in present-day Albania. He was married and had children there. Later he converted to Islam and then became a Christian agai ...

Namesakes

Centaurea sanctae-annae ''Centaurea'' () is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding reg ...

'', a species of

knapweed ''Centaurea'' () is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding reg ...

, is named after the skete.

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