The metropolitan church of St. George is located near the central square, in the same courtyard as the historical first school of the city (1882-1894). It was built in 1863-1869, at a site previously occupied by a secular building of unknown use. The town residents worked voluntarily for its construction. It is a three-aisled wooden-roofed basilica with a Π shape peristyle. It is similar to the corresponding urban basilica type churches built in Macedonia in the 19th century, such as St. Minas in Thessaloniki. Morphologically interesting are the facades of the building and especially its western side, where there are various interesting stone carvings, such as craftsmen’ masks, a double-headed eagle, an anthemium and a cross.
It is decorated with a remarkable neoclassical style, wood-carved and painted iconostasis, with icons made by important painters of the time, such as Devrelis Ditzos and Mattheos Ioannou from Korinthos. The fresco decoration of the church includes an imitation of marble revetment (1909) and representations of Christ Pantocrator, the evangelists and the twelve apostles painted by the Thessalonian Pavlos D. Zografopoulos (1910). In WWI it functioned as a hospital for the French army that was stationed in Goumenissa. The church, after many years of maintenance work, as well as the construction of a modern independent bell tower by the Ministry of Culture, is close to the form it had when it was erected.
