Category:Panagia Serviotisa, Stilos

English: The Panagia Serviotisa Church in Stilos, Crete. Located north east of the road to Megala Horafia, the church in the monastery of Agios Ioannis can be seen in the middle of the orange groves. The church can be reached by a narrow track. The church is one of the best examples of Byzantine architecture in Crete. It was built early in the second Byzantine period, the twelfth century, and shows influences of previously developed new forms of church architecture which originated in Constantinople.