The sanctuaries to Asklepius were built on three terraces, the third and upper most being that contians the Doric temple, which is a twin in design to the Asklepieion temple in Epidaurus. The temple was changed to a Christian church in the early years of Christianity with the name Panagia Tarsou.
Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine" whose oath first dealt with the ethics of medical practice, is said to have received his medical training at the Asclepieion on Kos.