[1] During the Ottoman period of the island, it was converted into a mosque called Kavaklı Mescidi, before it was returned to Christian worship.

[4] The first church building had a semicircular arch for the sanctuary and a floor with marble inlays and frescoes.

From this period, new murals and a burial crypt with frescoes under the floor of the northern aisle are also preserved, which houses, among others, the tombs of the two founders of the church, who were father and son.

[3] Out of the various murals decorating the interior of Hagios Spyridon, the most distinguished one is the representation of Virgin Mary the Mother of God and Staint John (dating to the early sixteenth century), flanked by two male figures in a posture of prayer.

The inscriptions next to their faces reveals their names: Andreas and Georgios, presumably the father and son who financed part of the decoration of the church and who were buried in the crypt.