One of the most important churches of Candia, Virgin of the Three Martyrs was erected between 1578 and 1583 outside the old walls, on present-day 1866 Street. It served as the seat of the homonymous Orthodox confraternity, whose members belonged to the city’s affluent families. On Venetian-period maps, it is represented as a three-aisled basilica. Its interior contained funerary monuments of prominent Cretan families, as well as notable works of art, including icons by Michael Damaskinos and Ieremias Palladas. Many of these treasures were transferred to Corfu after the fall of Candia, when the church was converted into a mosque. Fragmentary remains of both the church and the mosque have been identified in recent investigations.