Karakallou Monastery

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Karakallou Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastic community on Mount Athos in Greece, known for its medieval heritage, Byzantine architecture, and rich collection of religious manuscripts and icons.


Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Orthodox monastery
Mount Athos monastery
monastic community
architecturalStyle Byzantine architecture
associatedWith Byzantine Empire
Byzantine monasticism
belongsTo Mount Athos
surface form: Orthodox monastic republic of Mount Athos
country Greece
denomination Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church
followsCalendar Julian calendar
surface form: Julian calendar (Old Calendar)
governedAs self-governing monastery under Mount Athos charter
governedBy Holy Community of Mount Athos
hasAccessRestriction male-only access (Avaton of Mount Athos)
hasArtStyle Byzantine frescoes
post-Byzantine iconography
hasCollection icons
relics
religious manuscripts
hasCulturalSignificance center of Orthodox spirituality
repository of Byzantine art
repository of medieval manuscripts
hasFeature fortified monastery complex
katholikon (main church)
library
monastic cells
refectory
tower
hasFunction male monastery
heritage medieval monastic heritage
languageOfLiturgy Greek
locatedIn Chalkidiki (regional unit)
surface form: Chalkidiki regional unit

Greece
Mount Athos
locatedOn Chalkidiki Peninsula
surface form: Aegean Sea peninsula of Mount Athos
monasticTradition cenobitic
observesRule Athonite monastic typikon
partOf Athonite commonwealth
surface form: Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain

Patriarchate of Constantinople
surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Mount Athos
surface form: World Heritage Site Mount Athos
primaryRite Byzantine Rite
region Central Macedonia
religiousAffiliation Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
subjectOf pilgrimage by Orthodox Christians
UNESCOWorldHeritageContext Mount Athos cultural and natural heritage
usedFor ascetic life
communal prayer
preservation of Orthodox tradition

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mount Athos hasMonastery Karakallou Monastery