Gonia Monastery

Gonia Monastery
Μονή Γωνιάς
Gonia Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Greek Orthodox Church
Region	Crete
Patron	Assumption of the Virgin
Location
Country	Greece
Geographic coordinates	35°33′2″N 23°46′36″E / 35.55056°N 23.77667°E / 35.55056; 23.77667
Architecture
Date established	9th century

Gonia Monastery (Greek: Μονή Γωνιάς), Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panagia Hodegetria (Μονή της Οδηγήτριας) is an Orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari and some 26 km from Chania, on the southeast coast of the Rodopos peninsula in Crete, Greece, overlooking the Gulf of Chania. The monastery was given the same name as Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople. Both were named in honor of the sacred icon painted by Luke the Evanglist. The icon featured the Virgin and Child. It is traditionally called Hodegetria ("She who shows the Way"). Some churches adopted the name Madonna of Constantinopli in honor of the Hodegetria icon.^[1]