Holy Monastery of Saint Nicholas in Siamades

The Monastery of Saint Nicholas of Siamades is located in the municipality of Meteora, near the road Mourgani-Kastania, (at a distance of approximately 2 km from the main road). The first monastery, according to tradition, was originally built in the same area but in a different location, on the site of the abandoned village of Siamades. It was dedicated to the Zoodochos Pigi, and was destroyed by German troops in 1943.

The new monastery of Saint Nicholas was built at an altitude of 620 meters, lower than the first. From the monastery complex, only the catholicon has survived, which dates back to 1807, as attested by a stone inscription built into the outer western wall of the church. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is an Athonite-style, four-columned, church with a pronaos and remarkable frescoes, which are dated with an inscription to 1821.

The founding inscription informs us that the Monastery was built by the “abbot” monk Germanos. The interior of the catholicon is decorated with impressive hagiographies, as is the dome of the catholicon, which is circular on the inside and octagonal on the outside with a narrow rectangular window on each side. Equally impressive is the iconostasis, which, as a relief inscription testifies, is the work of the master Dimitris from Metsovo in the year 1815 during the hierarchy of Gabrielof Stagon.