Monasteries and churches at Mount Olympus

Some of the monasteries are a stauropegion, ie they are directly subordinate to the Patriarch of Constantinople, others belong to a diocese.

The number of churches and chapels around Mount Olympus is hard to overlook.

On his journey from Jerusalem to Corinth, in the first half of the 1st century, the apostle Paul also visited the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

In 1055 the monks Joakim and Daniamos founded a monastery on the south side of Mount Olympus, located above the river Ziliana.

In the 11th century, the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin (Isodion tis Theotoko) was built in Petra.

The kind of the construction and the decoration inside the church point to the 7th century.

[6] The chapel was founded in the 16th century by Saint Dionysios, who probably lived there for a time.

[7] It stands on the top of Mount Profitis Elias, one of the peaks of Olympus, at an altitude of 2803 meters and is the highest chapel of the Orthodox Church in the world.

[8] About 7 kilometers north of the town of Karya in 1640 the monastery of Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) was built.

In 1823 it was partially burned down by the Ottomans, in 1833 one of the monks caused a fire that completely destroyed the monastery.

[10][11] At the northern end of the village of Ano Skotina is the church of Agios Athanasios.