Monasteries-Churches

At the point where the Metropolis of Ioannina is located today (1, Metropolis street), there was a Monastery dedicated to Saint Athanasios the Great. After the failed movement of Dionysios the Philosopher (Dionysios Skylosophos), in 1611, and the expulsion of Christians from the castle of Ioannina, the church of Saint Athanasios replaced the cathedral of Pantocrator inside the castle and became the third Cathedral of the city.

It is located in Square Parga Ioanninon. The relics of the Saint, who is patron of the city, are kept in the church. Saint George, was hanged by the Turks at age of 30, on January 17, 1838, from the plane tree that existed in the locality Kourmanio, near the gate of the city castle, when he refused to renounce Christianity.

The monastery was originally dedicated to Saint Nikolaos, known as the monastery of Methodaton or Gkioumaton, due to its connection with the well-known family of benefactors. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 1584 after the transfer of the homonymous icon, important work of the Cretan School. The monastery includes the katholikon, which was probably built in the early 16th century in the type of a single- nave basilica, and the cells that were built in the 18th century

According to written sources of the 16th century there was a temple in the same place as early as the 15th century. From this phase, only a fresco with a representation of Supplication, of St. Nikolaos and other saints is preserved on the south wall.

The Church (Konstantinoupoleos Avenue), took its name from the "kopanisma" of the clothes, that is the pounding of the clothes that the women washed in the lake. It is not known when the church was first built. Panagiotis Aravantinos in the "Chronicle of Epirus" (1856) mentions Agios Nikolaos "in Kopani" as one of the surviving churches from the Turkish conquest of 1430.

In one of the oldest districts of Ioannina, in the center of the city, "Kaloutsia" (34, Agias Marinis street), the parish church is dedicated to the Great Martyr Agia Marina. The oldest information we have about the Church of Agia Marina, is that it was built in 1791.

The monastery was built inside the citadel of the hill between the 11th and 12th centuries, but suffered many damages during the 18th and 19th centuries. The katholikon is a four-aisled domed church which is adorned with 16th century frescoes.

It is located within the University Campus of Ioannina and was named after the benefactor of Kalarrites Georgios D. Douroutis (early 19th century), to whom probably belonged the entire current homonymous area.

It was built in 1656 and set on fire in 1822 by the sultan's troops. The current church, built in 1850, belongs to the type of three-aisled basilica with a rectangular narthex to the west side.

Dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, it was built in the 7th century by Emperor Constantine and renovated twice until 1522. It was called Molivdoskepasti because it was covered with lead plates, which, according to tradition, were taken by Turks to make bullets. In 1943 it was bombed by Nazi.