Isova

Daughter monasteries

No

The Marie Isova Monastery ( Our Lady of Isova, Notre Dame de Isova ) was a Frankish sure and probably the Cistercian order to associate with that monastery in the Prefecture of Elis at the height south of the river Alfios at Trypiti on the Peloponnese in Greece.

History

The monastery was possibly at the request of Gottfried I of Villehardouin in the Principality of Achaia founded in 1212 (see Monastery Zaraka ). In any case, were issued from Achaia twice asking for deployment of a Cistercian convent, one of which led to the establishment of the monastery Zaraka. On the other Please Isova could be due. It is mentioned several times in the Chronicle of Morea and probably destroyed in 1263 in the Battle of Prinitsa by fire.

Plant and buildings

The single, along rectangular church is next to the monastery Zaraka and the buildings in Andravida another example of French Gothic architecture in the Byzantine area. It is an unsegmented hall and measures 41.30 by 15.20 m. She pointed to the east on a pentagonal apse of 9.60 m length. The west side with three ogival windows and the north side of the church with six pointed arch windows are preserved almost undamaged, the south wall is severely damaged and the apse is no longer available. The church was probably crowned by a pointed wooden roof. The input to be from the southeast. The two-story monastery buildings lay to the north ( left) of the church. At the corner of West Front decorative figures is obtained. A few meters south of the church was probably built by the Latin monks from southern Italy, but probably not by the Cistercians, by 1263, a further 11 m long and nearly 10 meters wide, three-nave church (Saint Nicholas).