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At the side of the gorge is the small old chapel and the newly founded monastery of Agios Georgios Selinaris.
In the period of the second Byzantine empire (961-1205) there was a monastery here that was destroyed in 1538 by the pirate Barbarossa.
The small chapel that you can see now was probably dates from the early 16th century AD (on the ruins of a 13th century church), and ever since it is a place of worshipping. The window in the small church is dated 1319. The church contains new frescoes on the inside and outside on the façade there is an older fresco of Saint George.
According to tradition, the monastery was founded by a monk who fled to Crete from the island of Rhodes after that island was conquered by the Turks. He found in Selinari an icon of Agios Georgios, built the church and continued to live here. The monk is buried in a cave near the monastery.
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