Church of the Transfiguration, Kandylli

The church was erected in 1850 in a locality once famous for its benign climate and standing high on a hillside looking out to sea amid pine trees, leftists and arbutus shrubs.

A fire in 1905 reduced the church to ashes, as well as the school in its enclosure. In 1909 the church was lavishly rebuilt, this time in stone, the cost being defrayed by the Douvartzoglou brothers. Two years later the school was rebuilt with a generous grant of money from Efstathios Eugenides.

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