posted on 2018-05-15, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
An eleventh-century Byzantine monastery. It was founded towards the end of the sixth century A.D. The first monastery on the site was constructed in the style of a castle with a baslica in the middle. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the monastery was restored. The Daphni Monastery is called a masterpiece of middle Byzantine architecture. The exterior of the church has a cloisonné style.
History
Alt Title
Dafni Monastery
Date Modified
2019-11-06
Spatial Coverage
Haidari, West Athens, Attica, Greece|+38.0119+23.6540|Haidari
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910|
Cultural Context
['11th century', 'Middle Byzantine']
Rights Statement
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