Holy Monastery of Panagia Chrysopigi

The Holy Monastery of Panagia Chrysopigi, better known as Ano Moni (Upper Monastery), is located northeast of Divri, today's Lampeia, in the Municipality of Ancient Olympia.

The monastery is surrounded by a Π-shaped enclosure, where there are aisles with ancillary buildings. The aisles on the north and west sides are two-storied, in contrast to the east side where it is on the ground floor. The dining room, kitchen and storage areas are located on the ground floor, while the monks' cells and guest houses are located on the first floor.

The church has been built on the south side of the courtyard. It is a barrel-vaulted single nave, with a three-sided apse to the east and a narthex to the west. Around the church there are four chapels, with the entrance of the Saints Kirikos and Ioulitis chapel, located in the narthex.

The interior is decorated with wall paintings from 1667, as stated in the foundation inscription on the main entrance, in which it is stated that the financing of the painting decoration was done by the lord Zafeiris from the village Peta. Perhaps the erection of the church took place in the same year.

The mural decoration of the church is preserved almost intact. The depictions of the main church pertain scenes such as the wider Christological cycle  and the cycle of the Divine Passion, full-bodied saints and prophets, the Virgin Mary as the Life-Giving Spring and the martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, while in the dome is the Pantocrator surrounded by angels, the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists.

In the sanctuary, the depictions include prophets, scenes from the Marian and Eucharistic cycles, and in the apse the Virgin and Child (Panagia Brefokratousa) with the Communion of the Apostles and full-body hierarchs. The wall paintings of the narthex are subsequent, as well as the built altar screen with painted decoration and wood-carved paneling, which dates from 1845.

Copyediting: Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia