Prefectures of Crete
Chania Prefecture
Municipality of ChaniaMunicipality of ApokoronasMunicipality of PlataniasMunicipality of KissamosMunicipality of Kandanos - SelinosMunicipality of GavdosMunicipality of Sfakia
Rethymnon Prefecture
Municipality of RethymnonMunicipality of MylopotamosMunicipality of AmariMunicipality of Agios VasiliosMunicipality of Anogia
Heraklion Prefecture
Municipality of HeraklionMunicipality of MaleviziMunicipality of Archanon - AsterousionMunicipality of FestosMunicipality of GortynaMunicipality of ChersonissosMunicipality of Minoa PediadosMunicipality of Viannos
Lassithi Prefecture
Municipality of MirampeloMunicipality of SitiaMunicipality of IerapetraMunicipality of Oropedio
Agios Nikitas Achendrias
The monastery of St. Nikita Achendrias is an old hermitage at the periphery of the village Achendria, because the palms. St. Nikitas is a cave temple, which according to Paul Faure, dating from the 17th century.
From the pictorial decoration of the church only a few surviving murals and left the sanctuary, a smaller cave that serves as deacon, poured holy water from stalactites.
The place was sacred hermitage and spiritual exercise mainly by the monks of the monastery Koudouma, who stayed at the hermitage of Agios Nikitas permanently or periodically. The period between 1948 and 1959, St. Nikitas Monastery served as bishop of Arcadia.