Church of St. Helen

The Church of St. Helen stands in Parikia on Paros, a Byzantine foundation whose whitewashed walls and modest dome keep a quiet presence among the island's later architecture. Its dedication to St. Helen, mother of Constantine the Great, is a familiar one in Greece, often tying a church to the early Christian centuries. The building's story reaches back through many layers of the island's past, from archaic and classical times through the Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique periods to the present day. Small and unassuming, it likely served a local community, its simple form a living thread across the centuries.