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The main attraction is the Byzantine monastery of Panagia Kosmosoteira Monastery, founded in the 12th century by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, a member of the imperial Komnenian dynasty. The katholikon is a large cross-in-square church with a dome and brick decorative detailing typical of middle Byzantine architecture. Inside, fragments of fresco decoration survive, along with reused architectural elements. The monastery once formed a major religious and administrative centre in Thrace and is one of the best-preserved Byzantine foundations in northern Greece. The surrounding monastic walls and later additions reflect centuries of continued use, although the complex is now quieter and partially restored.
The Theotokos Kosmosoteira is a Greek Orthodox church in Feres, Evros, in the Western Thrace region of Greece. It was built as a monastery in c. 1152 by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The monastery became the core of the settlement of Feres, but is last attested in the mid-14th century. By the 15th-century, during the Ottoman era, the complex was a mosque; and it was reconsecrated as a church in 1940, administered by the Metropolis of Alexandroupolis.
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