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The '''Pantokrator Monastery''' (Greek: Παντοκράτορος, Pantokratoros) is located on the northeastern side of the Athos Peninsula in northern Greece. It is ranked seventh in the hierarchical order of the twenty monasteries located on the peninsula. As is case of the other institutions on [[Mount Athos]], life at [[Pantocrator|Pantokrator]] is coenobitic.
==History==
The Pantokrator Monastery is located near the Monastery of [[Stavronikita Monastery (Athos)|Stavronikita]]. The [[monastery ]] was founded about 1357 by Alexios the Stratopedarch and John the Primikerios. They are buried at the monastery. Their monastery was built on the ruins of monastery of Ravdouchou that had been plundered by pirates during the years of Frankish occupation after the [[Fall of Constantinople|Latin conquest of Constantinople ]] in 1204.
The [[katholikon]] within the monastery walls, which dates from the fourteenth century, is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Our Lord. Due to a paucity of space the [[church]] is small. It is of Athonite style and has frescos painted by artists of the Macedonian school. The murals were restored in 1854 by the painter Mathaeos of Naousa.
