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Type: Cross-in-Square
Date: 12th century
Description:
The monastery is associated with the reformation of monastic life in Greece. A valuable source for the monument is the vita of Hosios Meletios the Younger, who was allegedly the founder not only of this Monastery but also of a number of metochia. Twenty-four metochia are mentioned in the vita. We can detect some of them nowadays, a number of them in half-deserted state, close or further away from the Monastery. We mention Zoodochos Pigi in Dervenosalesi, Hagios Georgios in Ereneia, the church of the Savior, the one of Panagitsa and the small church of Hagioi Theodori, whose sculptured fragments were transferred to the Monastery of Hosios Meletios.
The small metochion - katholicon of Hagioi Theodori in the west of the Monastery lies in ruins in a forest.
The metochion of Hagia Paraskevi lies totally ruined in Pournari, near Oinoe in Megaris.
The monastery is also mentioned in Michael Choniates’ epistles. The bishop corresponded regularly with the abbot of the monastery.
The katholicon is a small, four-columned, cross-in-square church with an annexed chapel. It is dated to the 12th century. Only fragments are preserved from the initial frescoes.
The wall paintings in the main church and in the lite are dated to the 17th century.
Deliyanni-Doris H., Die Wandmalereien der Lite der Hosios Meletios, Munchen 1975.