Qualla: Oblou Monastery https://qualla.com/oblou-monastery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Oblou Monastery https://qualla.com/oblou-monastery Oblou Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/oblou-monastery/ The monastery's own codex records the disaster without flinching: "1770, in the month of April, the looting and destruction of Old Patras took place with drunkenness and the burning of the monastery, destruction of the cells and the church of the Albanians." The Albanian irregulars brought by the Ottomans to suppress the Orlov revolt had come through the hills above Patras and left the Oblou Monastery in ruins. It would not be the first time. It would not be the last. By that point the monastery was already six centuries old, and it had learned, in the way institutions learn, how to survive catastrophe.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/3/oblou-monastery-wp/sqz3-oblou-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Oblou Monastery: Built on a Mountain, Named for a Church https://qualla.com/oblou-monastery/ The Oblou Monastery — Μονή Ομπλού in Greek — was founded in 1189 on the mountain now called Oblos, in the Achaia region of the northern Peloponnese. Its name derives from a small church that stood on the site before construction began, a common pattern in Byzantine religious geog...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/3/oblou-monastery-wp/sqz3-oblou-monastery-every-conqueror-came-through.mp3 0:06 3 full Oblou Monastery: The Revolution Assembles on the Mountain https://qualla.com/oblou-monastery/ In March 1821, the revolution that would eventually free Greece from Ottoman rule was gathering momentum across the Peloponnese. The monastery's codex contains a cryptic entry noting that on March 3, 1821, "the Moria revolution reached Oblos" — historian Thomopoulos interpreted t...

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