{"id":6764,"date":"2025-04-16T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koufonisia.mydtales.gr\/?page_id=6764"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:06:43","slug":"ekklisia-tis-panagias-stin-kero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/koufonisia.gr\/en\/ekklisia-tis-panagias-stin-kero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of the Blessed Virgin on Keros"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A small church in Kero carries a long history.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The chapel in Keros, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was built by three monks. They belonged to the monastery of Panagia Chozoviotissa of Amorgos. They settled in a part of the monastery in Keros, built their cells, a refectory and the chapel.The monks lived with the help of the inhabitants of the surrounding islands.<\/p>

\u03a4\u03bf 1820<\/strong>During the Turkish occupation, a Greek from Kranidi who became a Muslim pirate, the so-called Turkodemitris, raided Koufonisia, Schinoussa and Keros. The few inhabitants who were present and helping the monks, resisted and were killed. The Turkdemitrius carried the monks to a hill, to the old castle and killed them by throwing them into a cliff. Then he destroyed the chapel. In the operations against the pirates of Admiral Miaoulis in the Aegean, 115 pirate ships were captured or sunk. Among them the pirate Turkodimitris.<\/p>

The metochi of Kerou was rented for pasture. The shepherds rebuilt the chapel of Panagia in the same place as the previous one. It is simple without a dome, with stone walls and a roof made of shingles and clay soil.
3 icons were placed, of the Virgin Mary, St. George and St. Nicholas, where they are preserved until today.
\u03a4\u03bf 1979<\/strong> repair.
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