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Type: Cross - Vaulted
Date: Late Byzantine
Description:
The church is situated in Parness, in the position Metochi. It was named like that because the church was a metochion of the Monastery Archangelon Petraki in Athens, near the hospital “Evangelismos”. It used to be the katholicon of a Monastery dedicated to the holy and saint Trinity (“yperousion kai Hagian Triada”). This is mentioned in a document dated to 1761 and in a sigillion of 1796.
The exact date of its foundation is not known. However, in all probability, the initial phase is dated to the Byzantine period, as various sculptures located in the spot indicate. Specifically, when the wooden screen of the church was replaced by a low marble one, marble panels and colonettes incorporated into the floor of the Holy Bema were used. The decoration of these panels (see photograph) consists of a rhombus in a rectangular frame, which surrounds an isosceles cross in a circle, very common subject during the middle Byzantine period.
It is a single-aisled, cross-vaulted church with a narthex.
The name “of the Water” derives from the holy water springing from a neighboring spring next to an age-long walnut tree.
Notton A., Quelques joyaux chretiens de l’ Attique, Athenes 1938, p. 78 ff.