EPISKOPI - 2007

Volos, Episkopi. P. Androudis publishes the architecture and sculptural decoration of the Byz Church of the Dormition. The original (ca. 13th Ct AD) church was probably a variant on the cruciform type: only the E wall survived rebuilding in 1639. The lower of 2 layers of wallpainting may date to the E16th Ct AD. The E and N fronts are richly decorated with anc. Gr and Byz spolia, among them reliefs from the sculptural decoration of the Byz katholikon of the Monastery of St John the Baptist at Portaria.