Εκκλησία Χριστός - Εκκλησία Χριστός

What can you say about this beautiful little church! Beauty serene devotion! And traditional wrestling!

Pretty little church all in stones. No parking nearby, it is better to park before the bridge.

Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Transfiguration of the Lord), first half of the 13th century. One-nave temple with a narthex. The temple is unique in a high degree of preservation of fresco decoration. Some of the frescoes date back to the time of construction (hierarchs in the apse), and much larger - to 1303. This is a painting of the icon painters Theodore Daniel Vaneris and his nephew Michael: Transfiguration of the Lord (niche on the south wall), st. Leonty (to the right of the niche), an inscription on the creation of frescoes (above the saint), half-length images of saints in medallions (above the niche) and similar ones on the north wall, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (?) (Niche of the northern wall), the passion cycle on the western wall, gospel stories (on the vaults: The Resurrection of Lazarus, Entrance to Jerusalem, The Apparition of the Angel to the Myrrh-bearing Women, the Resurrection of Christ - the northern part of the arch; Christmas, Meeting of the Lord, Epiphany Lord, The Cry of Christ by Judah - the southern part of the vault). The frescoes of the narthex were created in the second half of the 14th century: the Last Judgment, equestrian images of the great martyrs Dimitri and George (northern wall), Archangel Michael, communion of St. Mary Zosima (southern wall), Christ the Almighty (eastern wall).