A few kilometers away from Megalopolis, Arcadia and close to the graphic and beautiful village of Isari is the most strange little church of the world.
A tiny church whose fame is found at the ends of the world since it is literally defies and abolishes the laws of physics.
It’s about a small miracle that attracts the attention of visitors as 17 large trees spring from the roof of a small stone naidri at the time of its foundations gush the waters of a headboard.
The roots of the trees are not visible and can only be seen the trunks and branches that pass through the walls and roof.
The beautiful church has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records as a “wonderful naΐve”.
According to religious tradition the number of trees is as many years as St. Theodora when she died.
Legend has it that at the place where she was executed, her blood became a river and her hair trees.
Many argue that the unique phenomenon has no logical explanationas the weight of the plane trees would otherwise have demolished the small chapel or overturned its roof.
Science has tried to explain the miracle. In the summer of 1996, the Directorate of Restorations of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments asked the Geophysics Laboratory of the University of Patras to investigate a possible static problem.
At that time, a pioneering audit was carried out with radar tomography and electrical tomography.
The results showed that the root system of the trees has penetrated into the stone construction of the walls, creating gaps. Through them it reaches the ground, actually creating a grid that keeps the building upright.
They followed restoration work (1998-1999) in which the masonry was cleaned and grouted without cement injections, so as not to dry the roots of the trees.
The church is Byzantine and was built in the 12th century AD. in honor of St. Theodora who was executed in the area. It is only four meters wide and five meters long.
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