The Holy Nunnery of Taxiarches on Mt Pelion in St George, Nelias, is located half an hour from Volos at an altitude of 650 meters, at a spectacular location with a panoramic view of the Pagasitikos Gulf. It draws its roots from the mid-Byzantine era when Pelion, known at the time as "The Mountain of cells" or "Monastery" constituted a renowned monastic centre for the Orthodox East.

The holy Monastery first flourished in the 12^th century. It was a monastery from its beginnings until 1920, and it had an eventful course through time, deeply marking the life and history of the area as a place of pilgrimage with its multifaceted ecclesiastical and national presence.

Its oldest structural restorations occurred in the 18^th and 19th centuries. At that time, its Katholikon, honouring the venerable Archangels Michael and Gabriel and all the heavenly, bodiless Angels, was painted with rare frescos and adorned with an extraordinary wood-carved iconostasis containing exceptional portable icons of folk art. During the second half of the 19^th century, it reached the peak of its glory and spiritual influence under the leadership of Hieromonk Gabriel Ioasaf, who was a significant, holy and inspirational figure of Pelion monasticism these more recent times, a spiritual offspring of the ascetic life-style of Mount Athos.

After his blessed repose in 1911, the historical Monastery was forsaken by its monks, stripped of its great wealth and numerous dependencies (metochia), and left in a state of dereliction. The wonderworking grace of the Holy Archangels, however, facilitated its renewal, the first sign of which was in 1976 when it opened again as a nunnery.

In 1988 the current 26-member sisterhood began to get formed. Under the leadership of Nun Nikodemi (Kissa) and the spiritual guidance of its Elder, Father Antonios (Zoupis), it continues new pages of life, remaining faithful to its long, ascetic tradition, to the glory of God and His Church.

The members of the holy coenobitic community, together with their struggle for spiritual erudition have also undertaken the renovation of the buildings of the Nunnery, which found in ruins and have now made functional, with the grace of God and the saints, as well as the help of the faithful. The sisterhood also rebuilt a new, large church dedicated to the Archangel Michael, one of their last and most important constructions, whose foundations His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatios laid in September 2002.

The Monastery also has a dependency in the beautiful, olive-grove region of "Kanalia" in Saint George, Nelias. It used to be an old, small monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour which, during the last century, had no monks and slowly fell into decay. It is now being restored by the governing Nunnery.

The sisterhood engages in typical, traditional, monastic works (diakonimata) such as gold-embroidery, hagiography, the sewing of vestments, incense-making and other, less typical but equally important works: one of which is the operation of the radio station "Monastic Diakonia" which at 87,5 FM broadcasts all the daily church services as well as a rich and edifying 24-hour program of lectures and Byzantine music. It is a modest contribution and offering of the Holy Nunnery in the field of Orthodox mission. The abbess is Nikodemi Kissa and the sisterhood numbers 26 nuns.