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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Agia Paraskevi is a suburb and a municipality in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is part of the North Athens regional unit. Agia Paraskevi was named after the main church of the town, which is dedicated to Saint Paraskevi of Rome.

 

 

Agia Paraskevi is situated near the northern edge of the forested Hymettus mountain range, 9 km (6 mi) northeast of Athens city centre. The municipality has an area of 7.935 km2.

 

 

The built-up area of Agia Paraskevi is continuous with those of the neighbouring Cholargos, Chalandri and Gerakas. Besides the central area around the Agia Paraskevi Square, Agia Paraskevi consists of 7 districts: Kontopefko, Nea Zoi, Tsakos, Stavros, Aigiannis, Pefkakia and Paradeisos. The nuclear research center Demokritos, which hosts the sole nuclear reactor in Greece, is situated in Agia Paraskevi. It is also home of the Greek Ministry of Agriculture.

 

 

The main thoroughfare is Mesogeion Avenue, which connects Agia Paraskevi with central Athens. The eastern beltway Motorway 64 passes through the southeastern part of the municipality. The municipality is served by several metro stations and a suburban railway station, located in adjacent municipalities.
The following cultural clubs, activities and workshops are available in Agia Paraskevi:
Municipal Conservatory, Art Workshops, Choir, Philharmonic Orchestra, Theater Group & Drama Club, Dance Classes, Film Club and Open Air Cinema, Open University courses and various other cultural clubs that organize events throughout the year.
The Lycée Franco-Hellénique Eugène Delacroix (LFH), a French international school, is in the town and The American College of Greece.

 

In Agia Paraskevi, there are the following public educational institutes and schools: 13 kindergarten schools, 11 elementary schools, 6 junior high schools (including one for the hearing impaired) and 5 high schools (including one for the hearing impaired). There are also 3 vocational-technical high schools

 

Monastery of Agios Ioannis Kynigos

 

At a flat area on a wooded hill, on the northern edge of mount Hymettus, at a strategic location with a panoramic view to Athens and the plain of Mesogeia, is the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Kynigos (St John the Hunter). It is also known as the Monastery of the Baptist, or the Philosophers or the Hunter of Philosophers, names that are related to its founder, member of the family of Philosophos, which, like the family of Lambardoi, owned the Monastery of Philosophos in Dimitsana.
It was founded in the beginning of the 12th century, when a monk of the monastery in Gortynia with the same name settled in Athens. It was dedicated to the memory of the Baptist, as the monastery of Gortynia, and took the name “Philosophers”, due to the origin of his founder. The name “Hunter of Philosophers” seems to be due to Vasileios Kynigos (means hunter in Greek), member of the same family, who served as an abbot of the monastery and also came from the Monastery of Philosophos. This is confirmed by a ltter from the Metropolitan of Athens, Michael Choniates to Vasileios Philosophos and relevant surviving inscriptions. In the beginning of the 13th century the monastery was renovated. In the period of the Turkish occupation (1456-1833) it continued to operate and it was dissolved in 1833 with a law by the Regency of Otto

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The complex is surrounded by a four-sided precinct. From the initial monastery what survive are the catholicon and the pylon of the main entrance on the western side of the precinct. The catholicon belongs to the type of the two-columned cross-in-square church with an octagonal dome. In the 17th century they added a spacious narthex on its western side. In the 18th century they added an open arched portico on the southern side.
The external sides of the church are characterized by austerity. They have incorporated ancient and Old Christian architectural members, while the characteristic Byzantine cloisonné masonry is limited to the arcade of the altar area and the dome. The church’s interior is decorated with wall paintings that date mainly to the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. Very few fragments of Byzantine wall paintings from the 13th-14th century survive at the main church and the altar area. The marble screen, which was restored in the 1960s, dates from the beginning of the 13th century.
Nowadays it is a women’s cenobic monastery and it celebrates on the 29th of August.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]