All about Zakynthos

Church at the southern end of the town, built in 1728, with a common fundraiser for the relief of Zakynthos from the plague epidemic. The following year (1729) the town's community built from the foundations in the same place, a stone church and bell tower of Agios Charalambis. The church, which was severely damaged in 1953, was a small museum of hagiography and woodcarving. In the wood-carved and gilded iconostasis , baroque style, the despotic icons were the works of Nikolaos Kallergis. The despotic of St. Charalampi , with twelve icons all around his martyrdoms, is signed by Demetrios Nomikos the younger and dated 1828. The altars were probably made by Dimitrios Stavrakis. In the beautiful icon of St. Charalampi, probably the work of Stylianos Stavrakis (1732) with a silver carving by Giovanos Margaronis, representing the Castle and the port of Zakynthos at that time. The subject of the icon is the relief of the island and the town from the terrible plague epidemic of 1728, following the miraculous intervention of the martyr.  Under the matroneum was the multi-faceted synthetic painting by John Korais or Kastrinos of the procession of the sacred bone of St. Charalambis during the Venetian rule (1756), which is now on display at the Museum of Zakynthos. The church was rebuilt after 1953.