Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Places of worship for wider area of: "SFAKIA Municipality CHANIA" .
AGIA ROUMELI (Village) SFAKIA
The Byzantine church of Agia Triada is closer to the Samaria Gorge.
It had many exterior rosette decorations, some of them surviving today. Two old
graves are attached on the outside walls of the church.
The Byzantine church of the Panagia in Agia Roumeli is a very important church. It is near the beach, after the end of the modern village and before the canyon becomes visible. The church is easily seen from the boats approaching from Sfakia. It was a very old, three-aisled basilica built with very large stones. Only part of the church remains today and the larger original church can be seen around the more recent Byzantine one. In the middle of the church there are traces of mosaics in white, black and red, with geometric motifs. It is believed that parts of the church had no roof. This is one of the earliest basilicas in Crete and the mosaic that can be seen today in the yard of the newer church, surrounded by the walls of the older church, may come from an even earlier Greek temple of the first century B.C.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
You may reach the beautiful Byzantine church of Agios Pavlos by way of a footpath going east from the village of Agia Roumeli. It takes about 30 minutes to reach the church on an easy path that runs beside the sea. The church is on the spot where Saint Paul reportedly baptised people on his way to Rome. It is a very picturesque small church, built on the beach using stones from the beach itself. This is why it is not easy to see the church from far. The church has cruciform architecture with an equidimensional cross and a dome over the centre and is in a superb natural setting. The church was built around the tenth century and the frescoes probably date from the thirteenth century.
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AGIOS IOANNIS (Village) SFAKIA
The Byzantine church of Agios Ioannis has frescoes date from the fourteenth century.
The Byzantine church of Panagia has frescoes date from the fourteenth century.
ARADENA (Settlement) SFAKIA
On the edge of the Aradena Gorge is the fourteenth century Byzantine
church of Michael Archangelos, on the cliff overlooking the gorge. This church
was built on the ruins of a church from the sixth century. Although the church
is locked, its architecture is very attractive, as is its scenic position on the
brink of the gorge. The church has a cruciform architecture based on an equidimensional
cross. The church has a dome whose drum has narrow curved windows and also fourteenth
century frescoes, one of them depicting the donors of the church. The bell of
the church has an inscription and a drawing of saints. On November 8 the church
celebrates the feast of Michael the Archangel and is open to the public.
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FRANGOKASTELLO (Castle) SFAKIA
The Byzantine church of Agios Nikitas is about 400 metres from the
castle on the road that goes from Frangokastello to Skaloti and Rethimnon. It
has been built on the location of an older basilica, the smallest one known on
Crete so far. The coloured mosaic floor of the basilica is still visible.
KOMITADES (Village) SFAKIA
The small Byzantine church of Agios Georgios has frescoes by Ioannis
Pagomenos of 1314. One of the pictures shows the kneeling donors of the church.
SFAKIA (Village) CHANIA
The Byzantine church of Agii Apostoli has cruciform architecture with
a large dome in the centre of the cross and apses, reminiscent of the early Byzantine
prototypes. The church was constructed during the Venetian period.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
The church of the Panagia Psaromiligon has a marble relief decoration.
The church of Agii Pandes has unusually small wall paintings. At one
time, every family in Sfakia had its own church.
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