It is the
main church of the city, visible from all the sides, from land and sea. They
started building it when K. Papapetroy was the mayor in1897, after the decision
of the Municipal Council in 1896. It was finished in 1902, when the last vessel
was also launched in Galaxidi.The order of the Temple is Byzantine.It is built
in the place of an old church of Royal order. It has two belfries and dome.The
icon screen of the Temple is a masterpiece of woodcarving, with embossed the
Old and New Testament. According to Eva Vlami it is the creation of
mastro-Nikolas, a famous artist from Epirus, with religious education, that
died in in the Temple. Anast. Skiadas (in his book “Galaxidi”, Athens 1986)
reports that according to the research that Christos Makris and Giorgos
Plataris the woodcraved icon screen of Saint Nikolaos is the work of a famous
artist Anastasios Mpshos from Metsovo The icon screen is divided in 12 pieces,
the six are on the right and six on the left of the Beautiful. It is of big
religious and architectural interest.
