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At the edge of the Aradena Gorge, in Sfakia, lies a deserted hamlet of the same name, where the church of Archangel Michael or Astratigos – as Sfakia residents call him – stands. It is a cruciform church with a six-sided cupola with several features of the School of mainland Greece (Helladic), built on the ruins of the 6th century. In the 19th century it was extended into a one-aisle, arch-roofed building. Instead of an iconostasis, the church has pillars.