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Saint Ignatios Monastery

West Lesvos Municipality, Greece · built 1526

The Saint Ignatios Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery, located outside the city of Kalloni on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece. It is also known as the Limonas Monastery or the Limonos Monastery, due to the field on which it is built. Founded in 1526 by Saint Ignatios Agallianos, the monastery contains many important relics collected over the years and houses a library which contains many manuscripts and icons. It now has over 2,500 volumes of books and 450 manuscripts and Greek and Ottoman documents.

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