The impressively scaled Church of the Saviour (San Salvatore) of the Augustinians (Eremitani or Centuroni) was erected at the end of the 13th century outside the old walls, on the site of today’s Kornarou Square. The main church, destroyed by the earthquake of 1508 and subsequently rebuilt, was a single-aisled timber-roofed structure, articulated by pilasters along its long sides, between which high pointed windows opened, while the sanctuary was covered with ribbed vaults.

Within the church were preserved valuable relics, among them a brass lectern now kept in the Church of St Stephen in Venice. After the Ottoman conquest of Candia, it was converted into a mosque of the Valide Sultan and, from 1926, served as a girls’ school. It was demolished in 1973.