Saint Nikolaos Fountoukli Holy Orthodox Church

This guide to the small four-apsed chapel below Prophet Elias, near Eleousa on Rhodes, traces why it was built: a fresco names its founder, Nicholas Vardoane, kneeling with his wife and three children, and an inscription records that all three had already died. You'll hear how the church reads as an act of grief rather than gratitude. The guide also follows a second, very different story told in the nearby village, about a sultan from Constantinople and a dream sent by Saint Nicholas. Listen for the spring still trickling beside the church as you stand under the dome.