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The Monastery of Holy Apostles is located at Karkasa just 400m southwest from Sotiras Monastery, 4km west of Anatoli village and 16km far from Ierapetra Town, on the southern slopes of Lasithi Mountains.
This was once a small monastic complex which supervised the neighboring monasteries of Jesus Christ the Saviour, and Virgin Mary ‘Panagia Vagionea’. The monastery of Karkasa (or Karkasia) is well-known from archival sources of the 15th century and must have included all these three small monasteries. In the late 14th century, the scholar monk Nilos Damilas lived in the monastery. He was known for his action against the pro-Western theologians of the era and left important writings.
Only ruins survive from the cells of the original monastery. The catholicon is a single-nave barrel-vaulted church of 10.00 x 5.40 m, with two transverse reinforcing arches. The church is adorned on all its internal surfaces with frescoes, which constitute a comprehensive iconographic whole, including a total of 31 scenes.
Apart from the wider Christological cycle on the northern wall (22 out of its 26 scenes survive), above the zone of saints depicted in full body, we can see a cycle of the martyrdom of the Apostles, to whom the church is dedicated. The preservation of the iconographic decoration is unsatisfactory, however, on the basis of a 1429 incision, it has been dated to the 15th century (Maderakis 1988, 59). Two important icons which were in its altar-screen with distinct elements of Constantinople-styled art dated to around 1400 are nowadays kept at the Church of All Saints in the village of Anatoli.
The monastery itself is currently inactive and belongs to the parish of Anatoli.
This was once a small monastic complex which supervised the neighboring monasteries of Jesus Christ the Saviour, and Virgin Mary ‘Panagia Vagionea’. The monastery of Karkasa (or Karkasia) is well-known from archival sources of the 15th century and must have included all these three small monasteries. In the late 14th century, the scholar monk Nilos Damilas lived in the monastery. He was known for his action against the pro-Western theologians of the era and left important writings.
Only ruins survive from the cells of the original monastery. The catholicon is a single-nave barrel-vaulted church of 10.00 x 5.40 m, with two transverse reinforcing arches. The church is adorned on all its internal surfaces with frescoes, which constitute a comprehensive iconographic whole, including a total of 31 scenes.
Apart from the wider Christological cycle on the northern wall (22 out of its 26 scenes survive), above the zone of saints depicted in full body, we can see a cycle of the martyrdom of the Apostles, to whom the church is dedicated. The preservation of the iconographic decoration is unsatisfactory, however, on the basis of a 1429 incision, it has been dated to the 15th century (Maderakis 1988, 59). Two important icons which were in its altar-screen with distinct elements of Constantinople-styled art dated to around 1400 are nowadays kept at the Church of All Saints in the village of Anatoli.
The monastery itself is currently inactive and belongs to the parish of Anatoli.
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