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Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery
Ohrid, Macedonia
Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery information
Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery
Visiting Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery
- Guided tour, individual, access for invalids
- Administrator:
- Macedonian Orthodox Church
- www.mpc.org.mk
About Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery
Saint Jovan Kaneo monastery Ohrid ... Most known for its scenic location, standing on a cliff over Lake Ohrid.Significant to the architecture of the church is the exquisite combination of Byzantine and Armenian elements, which creates very favorable space for examining the medieval monuments in Ohrid.
There are only few frescoes left inside, but the feeling of standing in centuries used sanctuary is worth the entrance.
There is written record of the time it was built, but it is believed that it originates from the 13th century. The donor and the icon-painter of the church are unknown.
Significant to the architecture of the church is the exquisite combination of Byzantine and Armenian elements, which creates very favorable space for examining the medieval monuments in Ohrid. The fresco-painting for the most part is destroyed. Only the fragments of the altar fresco which present "Communition of the Apostles", the portrait of St. Clement, and St. Erazmo and Constantine Kavasilis have been preserved.
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