Saturday, 27 April 2024

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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
This Byzantine church was built in the 11th Century A.D. by the grandson of Emperor Michael I Rangabe, Paul Xiropotamino. It has embodied in its walls marble pillars and parts of ancient edifice. ...more
Prytaneiou & Epicharmou, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10558
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
Panagia Gorgoepikoos (or Agios Eleftherios) is a cruciform church with a dome that it is also called "Mikri Mitropoli" (Small Mitropolis), very accurately when one compares its dimensions to Metropolitan Church next to it. ...more
Platia Mitropoleos 8, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10556
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 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
The original Church of the Holy Trinity (Triada) of Piraeus was founded in 1839 by the first Mayor of Piraeus, Kyriakos Serphiotis, on a plot of land belonging to Agios Spyridon. Completion was done on the Town Hall of Petros Homeridos in 1841-1845. ...more
Ethnikis Antistaseos & Leof. Vasileos Georgiou A' 2, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18532
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
At the top of Lycabettus Hill is the Church of Agios Georgios (Saint George). It is a remarkable whitewashed chapel that dates back to around the 1800s. It is built on the same spot that the Temple of Zeus was in ancient times. ...more
Lycabettus Hill, Lykavittos, Athens, Attica, Greece 11471
The Ministry of Education and Religion was founded in 2013 by the Samaras government. The Ministry is responsible for all educational missions (schools and universities) and, in collaboration with the Greek Orthodox Church, for the free religious ...more
Andrea Papandreou 37, Marousi, Attica, Greece 15122
The first formation of the church "Estavromenos" of Aigaleo was constructed in 1934 and it was a rough building that looked like a parapet. The next year, a simple basilica was rebuilt with bricks at the same point. ...more
Nik. Plastira 2, Aigaleo, Attica, Greece 12242
The Monastery of Kaisariani is surrounded by a tall fence with two gates, one on the east and one on the west side. The monastery was built in the 11th Century and was dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin Mary. ...more
Monastery of Kaisariani, Vyronas, Attica, Greece 16121