The
Church of Agia Ekateriny is of the single-aisle
type with a dome. Its external measurements are
18,70 X 8,05 metres without the apse. Today's
church is the result of an expansion and a retrofit
of an older church that was arch-covered and had
a lesser length, a part of which is embodied in
the west arch of the church. To make the retrofit
of the initial church, the apse and a part of
the north and south walls were demolished and
the single aisle with the dome was added.
A segment of the original church measuring 8,05
X 8,70 is extant. In the centre of the west wall
stands the original gate, while the south gate
of the initial church was walled up and two new
ones were opened in the south wall, one in the
west and the other in the east of the initial
entrance. The church has a small, rectangular
window in the north wall and a narrow gap for
illumination in the semicircular apse. There also
are four small windows in the dome. The dome is
relatively large, while the south and north arcs
-that along with the arches support the dome internally
-do not appear externally either as semi-circles
or pediments as usual. Instead they end in a straight
segment that rises as the Greek capital letter
Ð (P) in the south and north wall.

The original church seems to have been decorated
with frescos. Out of these frescos one can distinguish,
under the whitewash of the western wall, pieces
of a large representation of the Second Coming.
The original church was built
in the 15th century and took its present form
in the middle of the 16th century.
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