The parish church in the village of Ypsilos is dedicated to the Taxiarchis. The original church is a two-columned cruciform church with a dome, without a narthex; it dates to the Middle Byzantine period. In 1885, according to an inscription outside the entrance, an addition to the west lengthened the church and transformed it into a three-aisled basilica with a dome. The porch was covered with cross vaults. On the southeast side of the courtyard there is a tower-shaped staircase built in 1893 as an inscription states. The walls of the Byzantine building are built with brick-enclosed stonework, while those of the newer one are of lime-washed stonework. Today, the interior and exterior are covered over with lime plaster.
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