Kyra Panagia has belonged to the Athonite monastery of Megisti Lavra since it was granted the island by the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas in 963. There is a monastery renovated in 2017 after 8 years of work and inhabited by a single monk, on the east coast of the island. , the resident population of the island was 2.
Kyra Panagia has been part of the Athonite Megisti Lavra monastery since it was given to the island by Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas in 963. There is a recently renovated monastery on the eastern coast of the island, inhabited by one monk and completed in 2017 after eight years of construction. The current population of the island is two.