Religious monuments of Old Xanthi
This route is about 2.3 km, about 70 minutes and of moderate difficulty. The visitor will have the opportunity to tour religious monuments of old Xanthi. From the Sunne mosque to the chapel of Agioi Theodoroi you will find a reasonable number of Christian churches and chapels, mosques and the Catholic church that testify to the religious identity of the inhabitants and at the same time highlight the multicultural and multireligious character that the city of Xanthi had and still has today.

Their position in the urban fabric of the city highlights the importance of their character (with the layout of secular buildings around them), the need of residents for religious expression and their timeless peaceful coexistence. Of interest are both their architectural configuration and their interior decoration with icons, frescoes, wood carvings on the iconostasis in Christian churches and tiles with floral decoration in the mihrab of the mosques.

65. Chapel of Zoodochos Pigi

Brief documentation:

The chapel, located on the Lefkou Pyrgou street, was built, as evidenced by the marble inscription, in 1934 by the tobacco industrialist Anargyros Sigalas, in memory of his mother Margarita. He planted about 1200 pine and cypress trees in the surrounding area. In the courtyard there is a column for his mother, who was born in 1855 and died in 1931, originally from Santorini.
Anargyros Sigalas started as a tobacco worker and became Prefect and Member of Parliament for the Rhodope Prefecture in 1936 with the Liberal Party of El. Venizelou. He is related to a mansion on Eleftheriou Venizelou Street that he bought from the Stalios family and to this chapel of Zoodochos Pigi that he built on Lefkou Pyrgou Street.
It is a small one-aisled chapel built within a large free space. The bell tower is embedded in the roof of the chapel, above its entrance to the west and has neoclassical features. Above the entrance door, a stepped cornice is formed, which is interrupted by the marble dedicatory inscription.
A second chapel dedicated to Zoodochos Pigi is located on Pindarou Street in the old Xanthi.


Category of thematic interest:  ARCHITECTURAL/HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS INTEREST


History:

The chapel, located on the White Tower, was built, as evidenced by the marble inscription, in 1934 by the tobacco industrialist Anargyros Sigalas, in memory of his mother Margarita. He planted about 1200 pine and cypress trees in the surrounding area. In the courtyard there is a column for his mother, who was born in 1855 and died in 1931, originally from Santorini.
Anargyros Sigalas started as a tobacco worker and became Prefect and Member of Parliament for the Rhodope Prefecture in 1936 with the Liberal Party of El. Venizelou. He is related to a mansion on Eleftheriou Venizelou Street that he bought from the Stalios family and to this chapel of Zoodochos Pigi that he built on Lefkou Pyrgou Street.


Elements of architecture:

obacco worker and became Prefect and Member of Parliament for the Rhodope Prefecture in 1936 with the Liberal Party of El. Venizelou. He is related to a mansion on Eleftheriou Venizelou Street that he bought from the Stalios family and to this chapel of Zoodochos Pigi that he built on Lefkou Pyrgou Street.
6. Elements of architecture    It is a small one-aisled chapel built within a large free space. The bell tower is embedded in the roof of the chapel, above its entrance to the west and has neoclassical features. Above the entrance door, a stepped cornice is formed, which is interrupted by the marble dedicatory inscription.


Description of other elements:

The inscription reads "HOLY CHURCH OF ZOODOCHOS PIGI ERECTED BY ANARGYROS N. SIGALAS IN 1934 IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER MARGARITA".


Purpose - Use: Church building


Characterization: Government Gazette 612B/30-4-1976 and Government Gazette 661/Β/17-5-1976, Government Gazette 1097/14.12-1995


Dating (period): Interwar period


Year of construction: 1934


Location of the monument: 41.14201101655997, 24.883842240468223


Bibliographic references:

•    Thomas Exarchou, "Two monographs. Anargyros Sigalas, Aristos Chasirtzoglou". Xanthi, 2014


 Address: White Tower 2-4


Visitable: No

 

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