Church of Ypapanti

The Church of Ypapanti the Savior, which dominates the homonymous square, is the Metropolitan Church of Kalamata.

It was founded in 1860 and was inaugurated in 1873 very close to the place where until 1770 the old temple was situated, when it was burned down, and for which a stone cross was built in the southeast of the Temple of Ypapanti Sotiros at the point where it is considered to be Agia Bank With the inscription: “This plaque remembers sacred and sanctuary.”

The Church of Ypapanti the Savior belongs to the type of cruciform engraved temple with large dome and narthex and has double bell towers. It may have suffered serious damage to the earthquakes of 1886 and 1986 but these were both restored.

In the church of Ypapanti the Savior is kept the homonymous image about which the legend wants to be found in the ruins of the temple that was destroyed in 1770 when the turkey pasha who had made there a stable for his horses saw in his dream a woman to indicate to him To dig there to find the miraculous image.

The Metropolis temple of the Lord Jesus Christ celebrates on February 2 with the litany of the icon, which has been going on since 1889, but the rituals, as set out in 1948, last a total of 14 days starting on 27 January and ending on February 9 with a festive night vigil.