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LIPARO (Village) GIANNITSA
The Saint Paul church of Liparo was founded in 1952 and consecrated
in 27th of May 1962. In the village cemetery is situated the Byzantine church
that dates back in the beginning of 606 A.D. In an undefined date and at the point
where Saint John the Baptist's icon was found by a farmer, a church was built
dedicated to his memory. Here used to come the residents of all the neighboring
villages and there is evidence that it used to operate as a secret school.
The church used to be larger than it is now, but its one side was
pulled down and the wall paintings were covered by lime, as well as the religious
painted screen was covered by oil paints. It was built in the Royal style and
it has three aisles with painting decoration on the architraves, where scenes
of the gospel interchange with representations of Evangelists. Important is the
woodcut gilded bishop’s throne, that the decoration is based on embossed and performed
technic. The subjects are mostly plants and partially animals, with dragons, lions
and water birds. The church has been proclaimed a preserved monument by the Ministry
of Culture and it is included (with the tomb) into the map of the ancient and
Byzantine monuments of the prefecture.
This text is cited May 2005 from the Municipality of Megas Alexandros URL below, which contains images
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