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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.
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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