A temple can offer comfort – but also shelter. The horseman St. George is met by Ypsipyli on her way to Agiohoma, and he hosts her with affection and understanding in the church with its solemn atmosphere.
Saint George of Repanidi is an old cemetery church. It is a three-aisled post-Byzantine basilica, of large dimensions (19m.x12m.), with a gabled wooden roof, without a dome, with neoclassical influences, without an exonarthex and a bell tower. It is considered to have been founded in 1860.
As a new church was built directly in front of it in 1928, also dedicated to St. George, the older church managed to preserve its architectural elements and not to suffer any interventions. It is one of the unique cases of a church in which the wooden perforated partitions of the women’s loft are preserved. The gilded, carved wooden iconostasis with the flowering flowers on the vaults and the bright colours of the portable icons testify to an exceptional folkloric aesthetic. The church had been abandoned and was extensively damaged. It was restored under the responsibility of the 14th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities in the years 2011-2013. Its inauguration took place with great pomp on 22 April 2014. Today the Church opens its Liturgical Year with the Great Vespers of the Feast of St. George during the Resurrection period until the Feast of the Holy Cross and has been declared a historical monument.