Moudros

Moudros, with a history dating to prehistoric times, probably took its name from a large “mydros,” a granite boulder near the harbor where sailors tied their ships. In 1835 the church of the Taxiarchs was built, a three-aisled basilica with a later exonarthex and a wooden iconostasis considered a copy from a church in Smyrna. Later, in 1903–1904, the impressive church of the Evangelistria was erected, also a three-aisled basilica with towers on the belfry, featuring an epitaphios donated by Admiral Kountouriotis. In the same area was the metochi of Agia Marina of the Koutloumousi Monastery, of which the Holy Table and certain buildings survive. The metochi was violently destroyed by the Turks, who burned it along with seven monks after the discovery of dead officers in a well. This tragic affair left a deep imprint on the locality’s memory and was linked to a long ecclesiastical penance.