Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "KALYVES Small town CHANIA" .
KYRIAKOSELIA (Settlement) ARMENI
The Byzantine church of Agios Nikolaos is considered by some people
to be one of the most beautiful churches in Crete and has many lovely and well-preserved
wall paintings with a strong emphasis on shades of blue. The church is a fine
example of Byzantine architecture on the island. It is of cruciform architecture,
but its nave (west-east) is much larger and wider than the transept (north-south),
so that the church inside is almost rectangular. The church has blind arches on
each side. The windows are decorated with semicircles of brick. The side windows
have a column with a column capital which creates two openings to its right and
left for the light. The church has an exceptional elongated drum supported at
the intersection. The dome has a roof of tiles, and it has long, narrow windows
very beautifully decorated with bricks. In the front of the church there is a
very large narthex of a much more recent construction.
This extract is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
STYLOS (Village) ARMENI
The church of the Panagia Serviotisa is one of the best examples of
Byzantine architecture in Crete. It was built early in the second Byzantine period
(12C) and shows influences of previously developed new styles of church architecture
which originated from Agia Sofia, in Constantinopole. The church has cruciform
architecture based on an equidimensional cross and a dome whose supporting drum
is on the intersection of the two aisles. Extension rooms of a lower height have
been built so that the overall shape of the church is rectangular. Several external
blind arches have been built as supports that reach almost to the roof. The church
has many beautiful Byzantine architectural decorations. The blind arches are underlined
by fine stone construction. The roof has a tooth-like decoration, and the windows
in the dome and around the church are constructed of brick. Behind the sanctuary
of the church there is a window decorated with a column which leaves two openings.
Another decorated column has been placed high up on one of the sides of the church.
The church is pleasantly situated in the middle of a valley of orange groves.
This extract is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
As you enter the village of Stylos, on the right is the Byzantine
church of Agios Ioannis 1271-80, with Byzantine frescoes. It has a single room
and a small dome above it.
KYRIAKOSELIA (Settlement) ARMENI
On the mountainside there is a cave with a small church (Agios Mamas)
inside it. On the feast day of the church, boiled meat is eaten. It is thought
that this custom is a direct descendant from the animal sacrifices of the ancients
to the god Pan. Evidence of animal sacrifice was found in the cave.
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