Sunday, 28 April 2024

Athens Directory Search

The Anglican Church of Saint Paul was founded in 1838 and was completed in 1842 by the architect Stamatios Kleanthis. It is a historic building of early Anglican style built during the first years of the Greek liberation. ...more
Filellinon 29, Syntagma, Athens, Attica, Greece 10558
Under the new modern hotel building (Electra Metropolis Hotel) is an old small church wedged between two columns. This is the church of ''Agia Dynami'' – the Holy Power of the Virgin. Do not pass it by, for it is an oasis of simplicity that has ...more
Mitropoleos & Pentelis, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10557
The Metropolitan Cathedral (or Mitropolis) is the largest and most important greek orthodox church in Athens. Seventy-two older churches were demolished for the construction of this church. The church, with the dimensions of 40 m long, 20 m wide and ...more
Platia Mitropoleos, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10556
The church is dedicated to Saint Dimitrios and took the name "Loubardiaris" because around 1650, a thunder bolt hit the Turkish garrison commander, Yusuf Aga, who had installed a loubarda (big canon) at the Acropolis Propylaia because he was planning ...more
Dionysiou Areopagitou & Apostolou Pavlou, Acropolis, Athens, Attica, Greece
The story of the Agios Konstantinos and Eleni Church in Glyfada dates from the distant past of the 1930s when the area was covered in pine trees, a small stone chapel and a large temple opposite it, both dedicated to the memory of Saints (Agios) ...more
Leoforos Posidonos & Saki Karagiorga, Glyfada, Attica, Greece 16675
The impressive Church of Agia Marina is located in the area of Thissio on the Hill of the Nymphs and beside the Observatory of Athens. In the courtyard exists a cavernous temple that is dated from the 12th Century. ...more
Agias Marinas 1, Thissio, Athens, Attica, Greece 11851
The church of Kapnikarea is located on Ermou Street, between the squares of Syntagma and Monastiraki. Kapnikarea was built in the 11th Century on the ruins of another church. ...more
Pl. Kapnikareas & Ermou, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10563
Agia Irini is a beautiful church on Aiolou Street, next to the Agia Irinis Square. The church is well known for its devout atmosphere during the laudations of the Christmas holidays. ...more
Aiolou & Athinaidos, Platia Karitsi, Athens, Attica, Greece
The church "Metamorfosi tou Sotiros" (The Transfiguration of the Savior) is located in Plaka. A church of the 11th - 12th Century A.D., in registered cruciform style with a characteristically high dome, it was built with the brick-enclosed system ...more
Theorias 6, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10555
The Project of Catholic Church of Saint Dionysius was initially planned by Leo von Klenze (1848). The construction supervision was assigned to Kaftantzoglou, who amended some of the plans (1858-85). The church is well known for the simplicity of ...more
Panepistimiou 24, Akadimia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10672
The Russian orthodox church on Filellinon Street is dedicated to the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) and it used to be sometime ago the largest church in the city. It is cruciform with a big dome of 10 meters in diameter. It was built during the ...more
Filellinon 21, Syntagma, Athens, Attica, Greece 10557
This monastery was built in the early 18th century in the southern region of the Island of Poros. It's located in lush green and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In the courtyard of the monastery there are also the graves of some famous resistance ...more
Epar. Od. Porou-Posidonas, Poros Island, Attica, Greece 18020