Anglican church of Saint George

Churches, Culture
Via Luigi Pirandello, 24 - 98039 Taormina

    The construction of the Anglican church, completed in 1922, is dedicated to Saint George and was built by Sir Edward to assign it to the British community established in Taormina.

    On the main façade you can admire the Siracusa stone portal decorated with black volcanic stone.
    The north façades is adorned with Siracusa stone windows and the west one by a rose window and a Siracusa stone cross.

    Inside the two aisles church has a very simple altar but enriched with a glass mosaic depicting Jesus Christ on the cross and on the right St. Catherine and on the left St. George.

    The church also houses tombstones and commemorative plates in memory of soldiers killed the First World War, of soldiers of the 30th Corps fallen in Tunisia in 1942 and of the officers and soldiers of the 50th Division who fell in the Sicilian campaign in July-August 1943.