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 Kapnikarea by janbeeu
This church was rebuilt in the second half of the 11th century on the foundations of an older church of the 9th century. It was built by Nicolaos Kalomaos who had the Office of Spatharocandidatos (Office in the Byzantine Court).
Klafthmonos square
Metro station: Panepistimio
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Agios Ioannis stin kolona (Saint John at the column)
This little 12th century chapel has a Roman column towering over its roof to which it owes its strange name (kolona: column). Saint John the Baptist is thought to be the healer of all sicknesses of the head. Many votive gifts can be seen on the column, offered in thanks for help granted by the saint.
Evripidou street
Metro station: Monastiraki
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Agios Ioannis Theologos
A very beautiful church of the 11th-12th century
Corner Erotokritou and Erechtheos streets - Plaka
Metro station: Acropolis
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Sotira Tou Kotaki
Better known as Ayia Sotira, just across from the Museum of Greek Folk Art. It was built in the 11th-12th century and has undergone many alterations and additions through the years.
Kydathenaeon street - Plaka
Metro station: Acropolis
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Agia Ekaterini
Very near to the monument of Lysikrates. This church was built in the 11th-12th century and stands in the middle of a small palm tree shaded square in the corner of which you can see the ruins of a Roman monument.
Lysikratus street
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 Agios Georgios by janbeeu
This is a small monastery belonging to the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. The church of the monastery, Agii Anarghyroi, dates from the 17th century.
Erechtheos Street - Anafiotika Plaka
Metro station: Acropolis
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Agii Isidori
It is a tiny church hidden inside a rock in the middle of Lycavittos Hill. It is built inside a big cave, which the old Athenians called the church of Agios Sidereas. The church was burnt down in 1930 and was rebuilt in 1931.
Going up Lycavittos Hill from Sarantapichou
Metro station: Evangelismos
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Agios Georgios
This is the white church you can see from afar at the top of Lycavittos Hill. You can reach it either on foot or by the funicular. It is said that in ancient time the temple of the Akraios Zeus used to be here. During the Frankish occupation its place was taken by a small chapel of Prophetis Elias which, in turn, gave its place to Agios Georgios the Rider. The exact date of its construction is not known. The bell was a gift from Queen Olga, who had found the church in ruins and taken it under her patronage.
Lycavittos Hill
Metro station: Evangelismos
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Panayia Chrysoo-Castriotissa
One of the many churches you can find in Anafiotika. Legend says that when the Turks entered the Acropolis, women and children threw themselves down from the cliffs so as not to be captured. The miraculous icon of Panayia saved them all. Since then the church has been a refuge for women and children in peril.
Anafiotika Plaka
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 Agios Eleftherios by janbeeu
Sotira Lykodimou Church
This is the largest medieval structure in Athens. It was built in 1031 as part of a Roman Catholic monastery that survived until 1701. The building was restored by Tsar Alexander II in the 1850s. Since 1852, it has been operating as a Russian Orthodox church.
Philellinon street
Metro station: Syntagma
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Agios Eleftherios (Saint Eleftherios)
This church, also known as Mikri Metropoli (The little cathedral), is located on Plateia Mitropoleos in Plaka next to the large Cathedral of Metropolis. This church has a much more important historical value than its neighbour and was built on the ruins of an ancient temple which was dedicated to the Goddess Eileithyia.
Dedicated to Panayia Gorgoepikoos and Agios Eleftherios. Built at the end of the 12th century.
Metropoleos Square
Metro station: Monastiraki
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Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea
This church is smack in the middle of busy and commercial Ermou street. It was built on the ruins of an ancient temple, dedicated to a female goddess, possibly Athena or Demeter
Dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (Eisodia tis Theotokou).
Built in the 11th century, completed in the 13th.
Ermou & Kapnikareas street
Metro station: Monastiraki
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 Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea by amsterdam_vallon
Of the total 150 Early Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine churches in Athens, 24 have survived virtually intact, 20 remain in a ruinous state, 11 have been disfigured by later intervention, 10 have been replaced by new churches and 85 have been destroyed and no longer exist.
There's a list of the most interresting churches to see :
- Kapnikarea 11 C (Chimney Tax Church)
- St. Theodore (Agioi Theodoroi)
- Virgin Swift Hearing (Panagia Georoepikoos)
- St. John the Theologian (Agios Ioannis o Theologos)
- Saviour of Lykodemos (Soteria tou Lykodemou)
- St. Nicholas Rangavas (Aghios Nikololaos Rangavas)
- Saviour of Kottakis (Soteria tou Kottaki)
- Transfiguration of the Saviour (Metamorphosis tou Sotera)
- St. Catherine (Agia Aikaterini)
- Holy Apostles of Solakis (Agioi Apostoloi Solaki)
- St. Demitrios Loumbardiaris (Aghios Demitrios Loumbardiaris)
- Great Virgin (Megali Panagia)
- Incorporeal Saints (Agioi Asomatoi)
- Mosque of the Lower Fountain
- Penniless Saints (Agioi Anargiroi)
- Pantanassa, Mikro Monastiraki
To see some of the churches I visited, follow this link : The Church of Athens Leave a Comment
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 by alcalacurro
Athens is an amazing city cause cause be caotic besides very nice. In the city where Olimpic Games were born you can visit today the first Modern Olimpic Stadium Plakaīs zone (very interesting), and of course the Acropolis, the most important monumental place in Athens wich is being restaurated.
Ah! Donīt forget wearing a international student card if you have it because the ticket costs 12 euros if you donīt have it. (If you have it, itīs free).
And anything more! Enjoy with ancient cultures, itīs wonderful how they could build those gigant monuments many centuries before Christ. Leave a Comment Address: Centre of Athens
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 Byzantine church in the Plaka by aukahkayLeave a Comment Address: Along ErmouDirections: From Syntagma Square, walk along Ermou towards Monastiraki Square. You will come across the church about 500m down Ermou
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