Estavromenos in Chora
The Church of the Estavromenos was built around 1660 by the Bishop of Kythira Philotheos Darmaros. From a written testimony of 1560, it seems that there was a church of Estavromenos before. At the entrance of the Church there is a built-in inscription with the coat of arms of the Darmaros family.
It is the Metropolitan church of Kythera and as an episcopal church it is connected to all the great events that have religious, political and social significance for Kythera. During Great Lent, the Temple hosts, according to an ancient custom, the icon of Myrtidiotissa, or whatever is the most precious relic of Kytherians.
Inside the church, the magnificent wood-carved iconostasis stands out as well as the portable icon with the “Trial of Christ”, (1889), a work of the Kytherian painter Ioannis Stais.
CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES OF KYTHIRA
- Agia Barbara
- Agia Elessa
- Agia Moni
- Agioi Akindinoi
- Agioi Anargyroi in Xiroulaki
- Agioi Anargyroi in Paliokastro
- Agios Andreas
- Agios Dimitrios
- Agios Georgios of the Mountain
- Agios Ioannis in Krimnos
- Agios Ioannis Theologos
- Agios Nikolaos Krasas
- Agios Petros
- Agios Vlasios
- Estavromenos
- Konteletou
- Osios Theodoros
- Panagia Myrtidiotissa
- Panagia Myrtidiotissa and Panagia Orfani in the castle of Chora
- Panagia Orfani of Mylopotamos
