The historical temple of Didymoteicho

The church was built in 1846 on the site of the byzantine monastery of Christ the Savior. It is a three-aisled basilica where the aisles are defined by double colonnades.

Of particular interest is the tower that was rebuilt in the bell tower of the church in 1873.

Of great historical and artistic value are the two-faced icons that come from the church and probably belong to the pre-existing Byzantine monastery.

One icon was a gift of the emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos and depicts on the first side the Crucifixion and on the second the Virgin Mary holding baby Christ. It dates back to the beginning of the 14th century. The other icon bears the Savior Christ and the Deposition. It dates from the beginning of the 13th century.

Today the icons are kept in the Ecclesiastical Museum of Didymoteicho, in the basement of the church of Panagia Eleftherotria.