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The monastery
Tourliani is the most important monastery of Mykonos
The Panagia Tourliani is the most important monastery of Mykonos, in Ano Mera, seven kilometres from Mykonos Town. According to tradition it was built by fugitive monks of the Archontissa of Paros, who sought asylum on the island.
The icon
One account says the icon was found in the sea at Tourlos
According to another version, the name comes from the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, found in the sea area of Tourlos outside Mykonos Town. The icon is considered to be the work of Luke the Evangelist.
The building
Founded in 1542, it took its current form from 1757 to 1767
The monastery was founded in 1542 where a church of the Entrances of Panagia stood. In 1757 to 1767 the hieromonk Ignatios Basoula renovated it, and it acquired its current form. The domed catholicon has a towering marble spire.
The altarpiece
A gilded Baroque altarpiece was built in 1775 by Florentine artists
The catholicon has an imposing gilded wood-carved altarpiece in the Baroque style, designed and built in 1775 by Florentine artists. The iconostasis covers all three aisles of the church.
10.20 meterslength of the iconostasis
A new use
In the 20th century it was a nursing home and then an orphanage
At the beginning of the 20th century the monastery functioned as a nursing home and later as an orphanage. Land it gave away was used for a kindergarten, a primary school, a square and a spiritual center. A church museum now operates inside.
Day 4, morning
It comes after Ano Mera. Then Panormos Beach.
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