The Church of St. Irene is a

Greek Orthodox Greek Orthodox Church (, , ) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian Churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Rom ...

church on the island of

Ios Ios, Io or Nio (, ; ; locally Nios, Νιός) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides. It is situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about long an ...

, Greece. It is located in the south side of the port of Ios in Yialos and it was built in the 17th century.

Architecture

The church has two bell towers. One over the entrance in the church and another one over the gate with seven and three bells respectively. Very close to the church, under a tree lies a mysterious 17th–18th century grave with engraved square and compasses symbol and a skull and bones symbol. The writing on it is altered and it is not readable. It's not known to who the grave belongs to but it is assumed that it is of a pirate.

References

Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Greece Ios {{greece-church-stub