Church of the Nativity of Christ in Romanos

The Church of the Nativity of Christ is one of the oldest churches on Lemnos. It is a cemetery church dating to 1830 in the village of Romanou, on the island’s eastern side, dedicated to the Nativity of Christ. Built as a three-aisled basilica thanks to a donation from a wealthy Lemnian, it features neo-Gothic windows in the exonarthex, pear-shaped decorative motifs, and carved capitals. The church was painted by the renowned Imbrian iconographer Efstratios Chaimandes. The entire interior and the icons on the carved wooden templon draw their themes from the Bible, with particularly notable scenes of Adam and Eve, the Flood, the Trumpets of Jericho, the Tower of Babel, and Cain and Abel.