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Thiari Monestary
South East inland a beautiful monestary, Thiari. In a peaceful setting 4km to the southwest of Laerma is the oldest monastic foundation on the island, and still one of the most active today: the monastery of the Archangel Michael.The foundation may go back as far as the 9th century; the main catholicon building is of the early 12th century; and there are -wall-paintings in several layers, dating principally from the 13th, 15th and 17th centuries all of considerable quality. The monastery was rescued from decline in 1990 by the efforts of a new abbot from Patmos, and the stable monastic com munity of mostly (young) Greek and Serbian monks now numbers over twenty
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