The church in Aiani, which is dedicated in the Dormition of the Virgin, was rather built in the end of the 11th or in the beginning of the 12th c. according to the masonry, the three-columned windows and the sculptural decoration. It's an aisleless timber-roofed basilica with narthex and exonarthex. The nave communicates with the narthex through a ''trivilon''. It is an early-byzantine architectural monuments, such as the Katholicon of St.Stefanos's monastery in Meteora. But during the 16th century ...