"Agioi Anargyroi" Hospital in Sparta
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Sparta Charitable Association "Sotiras" leased the Valasopoulos’ magnificent two-storey house (built in 1865) at the corner of Evangelistria and Paleologos streets, where it established a small hospital. This hospital bore the name of the Association, "Sotiras", and consisted of three wards and an operating room.
In 1930, the Spartan Women's Charitable Association "Agioi Anargyroi" built a new small hospital on a plot of land owned by them, on Amalias Street (today Lykourgou), which had been granted by the Matalas family, on the condition that a hospital or nursing home be established there. It was a one-storey building with a tiled roof and parapet above the cornice on the facade. In the centre of the parapet, above the entrance, the name "HOSPITAL OF AGIOI ANARGYROI” was written in capital letters. Since then, the hospital has been in continuous operation, receiving indigent patients. It played an essential role during the 1940 war and the German Occupation.
When the Sparta General Hospital (formerly Sanatorium) operation began in 1962, the small hospital no longer had reason to exist. However, because, at that time, it treated needy elderly people, the General Assembly of the charitable association decided to convert the hospital into a nursing home. In the early 1970s, the place of the old hospital - nursing home "Agioi Anargyroi" was replaced by the modern building of the Sparta Nursing Home, which still retains the same name.
