'Theotokos Kecharitomene', Mother of God, full of grace[1]) was a female convent built in the early 12th century in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, by Empress Irene Doukaina.
[2] It was built in the northern part of Constantinople, adjacent to the male monastery of Christ Philanthropos, founded slightly earlier (1107) by Irene.
[2] According to the typikon, the monastery was initially envisaged to house 24 nuns, but the rules allowed the number to be raised to 40.
Irene's daughter Anna Komnene was forced to retire there after her husband's death, and it was here that she wrote the Alexiad.
[2] The monastery is last attested in the 15th century, when the Russian pilgrim Zosima [ru] visited it.