Church of the Holy Apostles (Thessaloniki)
Thessaloniki, Byzantine Empire, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Mary (mother of Jesus)
978-620-1-98558-2
6201985581
160
2012-08-22
49.00 €
eng
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Church of the Holy Apostles is a 14th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. The church is located at the start of Olympou Street, near the city's western medieval walls. As evidenced by remnants of a column to the south of the church and a cistern to its northwest, it originally formed part of a larger complex. Consequently it appears that the church was originally built as the katholikon of a monastery. The date of its construction is not entirely clear: the founder's inscription above the entrance, the monograms in the capitals and other inscriptions refer to Nephon I, Patriarch of Constantinople in 1310–1314, as the ktetor. Another inscription on the eastern wall commemorates the same patriarch and his pupil, the hegumenos Paul, as first and second ktetores respectively. Recent analysis using carbon-14 however points to a later date for the entire structure, ca. 1329. A depiction of the hegumenos Paul kneeling before the Virgin Mary, as well as a series of Marian scenes lead to the conclusion that the church was dedicated to the Virgin, perhaps to be identified with the Monastery of Theotokos Gorgoepikoos.
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