Pentele.
Pentele.
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240. Pentele, Cave churches (Πεντέλη, ναοί Σπηλιάς)
240. Pentele, Cave
churches, dome
(Πεντέλη, ναοί Σπηλιάς,
τρούλος)
240. Pentele, Aghia Triada Nerou (Πεντέλη, Αγία Τριάδα του Νερού)
240.
Pentele.
There are indications that, before Iconoclasm (726-843), Pen-
tele hosted hermits and small monastic communities. On the
road to the mountain, right after Chalandri, Frangokklesia was
excavated, a small, aisleless, funerary church (second half of
the 13th c.), next to a rural settlement. Near the Post-Byzan-
tine Pentele monastery is Aghia Triada Nerou, a contracted,
cross-in-square church with barrel-vaulted narthex dating from
the Late Byzantine period. Significant wall-paintings (13th c.)
originate from the two chapels of the Cave of Pentele, higher up
than the monastery. The S example is a cave chapel, while the
N chapel of Saint Nicholas is arranged as a contracted, cross-
in-square church. The painted decoration on the dome of the
latter dates to 1233-4, as indicated by inscription. The Taxiarch
(11th-12th c.) at Kamari, located after the quarries, is a small,
aisleless, domed church with narthex and annexes, preserving
traces of wall-paintings and parts of marble altar screen in its in-
terior. The ruined Frangokklesia at Vagiati, whose plan is similar
to that of Aghioi Theodoroi at Klauthmonos Square in Athens, is
a Mid-Byzantine, cross-in-square church with pilasters instead
of support columns in the W.
240. Pentele,
Frangokklesia at
Vagiati, ground
plan (Πεντέλη,
Φραγκοκκλησιά στο
Βαγιάτι (κάτοψη))
