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The Chartophylakas family founded the monastery of Chrysopigi in the sixteenth century. The original section is in the middle of the church. The Turks entered the monastery on Easter Day of 1821 and killed all the monks. Today it is a convent with several nuns living there.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
The Chrysopigi Monastery contains the church of the Panagia. It has cruciform architecture with a non-symmetric cross and a large dome at its intersection of the aisles. With the addition of two side rooms, externally it forms a rectangular shape. It has a narthex in the front of the church separated into three parts, the central part leading into the main church.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
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