The Monastery of Hagios Ioannis Theologos (Saint John the Theologian) and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the island of Ptmos, together with the partnered medieval settlement of Chor, constitute a remarkable illustration of a customary Greek Orthodox journey middle of exceptional building investment. The town of Chor is one of the few settlements in Greece that have advanced uninterruptedly since the twelfth century. There are few different places on the planet where religious functions that go again to the early Christian times are as of now being honed unaltered.

The Monastery of Hagios Ioannis Theologos and the Cave of the Apocalypse honor the site where St John the Theologian (Divine), the 'Adored Disciple', made two out of the most hallowed Christian meets expectations, his Gospel and the Apocalypse.

Ptmos is the northernmost island of the Dodecanese bunch with a zone of nearly 88 km2, is to a great extent fruitless, structured from three volcanic masses joined by thin isthmuses. There are three settlements: the medieval Chor, the nineteenth century harbor of Skla, and the little provincial Kampos. The site chose by Christodoulos for his Monastery of Hagios Ioannis Theologos overwhelms the entire island.

Ptmos was colonized first by Dorian and after that Ionian Greeks. When it was consumed into the Roman Empire it was utilized, in the same way as other Aegean islands, as a position of outcast for political detainees. Around them was the Evangelist St John the Theologian (otherwise called St John the Divine), who was accumulated to the island AD 95 throughout the rule of Domitian. Like so a considerable lot of the Aegean islands Ptmos was crushed by Saracen pillagers in the seventh century, and it was essentially uninhabited for the following two centuries. In 1088 Hosios Christodoulos, a Bithynian abbot who had effectively established cloisters on L©ros and Kos, acquired authorization from the Byzantine Emperor Alexis I Comnenus to establish a religious community on the island committed to St John. This was during a period when the royal state was empowering resettlement on the islands and shores of the Aegean, an arrangement that incorporated the station of sustained cloisters.

The island was caught by the Venetians in 1208. It is around this period that the most seasoned settlement on Ptmos was established, that of Chor, when wedded lay siblings and other individuals working for the religious group settled around the cloister. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 about 100 families were resettled in Chor, to the west of the cloister, where they secured the rich range known as Alloteina. At this point the presence of the settlement was that of scattered houses basically provincial in nature. Ptmos went under Turkish control in the early sixteenth century. Incomprehensibly, this denoted the start of a time of flourishing for the islanders, who were allowed sure expense benefits in return for their accommodation. The occupants of Chor exploited these to take part in transportation and exchange, and this is reflected in the fine houses fabricated by well off dealers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth hundreds of years, various which make due to the present day.

This flourishing finished when the island was sacked by the Venetians under Francesco Morosini in 1659. Taking after the fall of Candia to the Turks in 1669, Venetians outcasts were settled on the island. They made another neighborhood, known as Kretika, the fundamental square of which was named Agialesvia, committed to a female Cretan holy person. The urban tissue started to change, the new properties being much more modest and thickly stuffed. It was gradually to recoup its previous commercial part, however in the later eighteenth century and all around the nineteenth century Ptmos was by and by a significant exchanging focus. In the mid-eighteenth century the Aporthiana quarters were structured as the town stretched. Large portions of the old houses were restored and new chateaus were constructed.