How many monks lived in the St. Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery in the old days and how many nowadays?
We have no information about the number of monks that lived in the St. Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery in the old days. Nowadays a monk, abbot archimandrite Polykarpos Venetis, lives here. 6) What are the architectural features of the katholikon of the St. Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery? The katholikon of the monastery (the St. Nicholas church) spreads all over the second floor. It consists of a small nave that has an irregular shape (almost square), adapted to the shape of the rock. It has a little dome in the centre of the roof that is dark and with no windows as the third floor had to be built on the top of it. In front of the nave there is a narthex that is more spacious than the nave. 7) Who decorated with frescoes the katholikon of the monastery and when? Could you mention some characteristic frescoes? The katholikon was decorated in 1527 by the famous painter from Crete, Theophanes Strelitzas, who probably was a monk those days. At the lower part of his paintings he used to write his
