Church of Agios Dimitrios (St.Dimitrios) – Parori

Agios Dimitrios of Parori was completed a year after the church of Kratero. It is a single-aisled street vaulted church and is perhaps the only example in the wider area with a stone arch for housing. The typology of this single-aisled church is reminiscent of the vaulted single-aisled cross-roofed churches of the 13th and 14th centuries in Greece.
The sanctuary is a typical space with three niches. In the western part of the interior of the church there is a wooden structure, which forms an esonarthex and above it the women’s loft.
Externally, on the north and west side, the church is surrounded by a single open but covered area, which functions as a vestibule. The north side of it is a wooden structure in the form of a loggia, while the western part has perimeter masonry.
In this masonry of the western exonarthex rests the peculiar and square in plan, wooden bell tower, which is enclosed by vertical single wooden boards, while the overlap of the square shape is made with a dome with double curvature and coating with sheet metal.
Agios Dimitrios of Parori was built in 1837, while towards the end of the 19th century the loggia of the north side was added, which was made simultaneously as a single construction with the exonarthex of the west side.

SOURCE: https://www. academia. edu/ Study for the restoration of post-Byzantine churches in the area of Florina