6,138
edits
Changes
→The Main Temple
Image:Ekatontapyliani_1.JPG|'''The Main Temple''' - View of the Main temple and Iconostassis.
</gallery>
The main temple is about 30x25m and is an outstanding piece of architecture; the unison of its interior design creates a feeling of size, antique atmosphere and inner harmony. In the centre, is a cross-shaped temple with a colonnade in the north, south and west. There is a second level (the gynaeceum) with a series of square pillars. These are also shaped in the cross to form the four vaults in the middle and the "cross-vaults" on the sides. The four vaults cross at the dome, which is held on all four spherical triangles and also by four very big columns.
On the two of the four spherical triangles, six-winged seraphims are painted on them and there is only one other church in the world with this exact same painting of six-winged seraphims on spherical triangles and that is in St. Sophia of Constantinople.
The northern and western vaults had fallen during an earthquake that shook the church in 1733. These have since been rebuilt.
{{stub}}
== The Altar ==
<gallery>
