Irene Vassos
  Irene Vassos
  • Overview
    • Roumeli
    • Thessaloniki
    • -----My Solo Walk
    • -----Thessaloniki Churches
    • -----Byzantine Museum
  • Thessaly South
    • Thessaly South
    • ------Agios Demetrios
    • -----Towards Elassona
    • -----Monastery of Panageia Olympiotissa
    • -----Kalampaka the Town
    • -----Kalampaka Church of the Dormition of the Virgin
    • Meteora Overview
    • ------Monastery of Agios Stephanos [Old Katholikon]
    • ------Monastery of Agios Stephanos [New Katholikon]
    • ------Monastery of Roussanou
    • Pefkis Icon Studio - Trikala
    • Distomo: Hosios Loukas
  • Ionia | Kefalonia
    • Ionia | Kefalonia
    • The Port of Kylini
    • Kefalonia: Monastery of St. Gerasimos
    • The "Lost" Archbishop of Kefalonia
    • The Robola Winery
    • Monastery of St. Andrew and Ecclesiastical Museum
  • Peleponnese
    • Peleponnese
    • Kalamata
    • Mystras (Overview and Map)
    • Mystras: Gates, Towers, Arches and Paths
    • Mystras Churches
    • Arkadia: Ardamis Restaurant
  • Aegean
    • Aegean
    • Island of Aegina
    • Monastery of St. Nektarios
    • Athens the City
    • Athens the Byzantine and Christian Museum
    • Athens the Acropolis and its Museum
  • Extras!
    • Cats!
    • Food!
    • Window Doors Gates and Signs
  • Claire
  • ClairePaper
  • NewHaven2018
Churches of Mystras 
Cathedral of Agios Demetrios
Church of Evangelistria
Church of Saints Theodore
Hodegetria-Aphendiko (Annunciation)
Church of Agios Nikolas
Church of Agia Sophia
Monastery Church of Panagia Pantanassa
Monastery Church of Panagia Peribleptos
Taxiarchs or Archangels (not shown)
Church of Agios Georgios
Agios Christopher (not shown)
​Agia Kyriake (not shown)​

Church of Saints Theodore

Picture
- The church of Saints Theodore is the largest in Mystras. It was built in the late 13th century by monks Daniel and Pachomios, and its architecture is quite grand and beautiful. The church is an octogan with lateral chapels. 

​The church is dedicated both to St. Theodore of Amasea (the Studite or Tyron) a soldier martyr of the early 4th century and of St. Theodore Stratellates, also a warrior-soldier of the same period (and some historians think that the two saints were the same person). They are both, however, venerated as saints in the Orthodox Church.

The wall paintings of the church are from the late 13th century.  They are in poor condition but there are two large frescoes of the saints of the church stand in the front interior walls. Above them are a band of frescoes depicting the lives of the saints. In additon there are partial frescoes of the Life of the Theotokos and of the Twelve Great Feasts (incomplete) as well as partial fescoes of Gospel stories and miracles and other scenes from the life of Christ and his Disciples.