Hagios Demetrios
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The Church of Saint Demetrius, or Hagios Demetrios, is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki, dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the
Façade of the Basilica of Hagios Demetrios
Byzantine architecture by Félix Marie Charles Texier. Illustrated by "Examples of Edifices erected in the East during the earliest Ages of Christianity", R.Popplewell Pullan, London, Day & Son, 1864.
Interior with rests of applicated light and dark fields of the arches
St Demetrius, Thessalonica ground plan, Texier Charles,1864
The city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, for several centuries the second-most important city of the Byzantine Empire, played an important role for Christianity during the Middle Ages and was de
Hagios Demetrios
…a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire. Since 1988, it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a part of the site Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki. The first church on the spot was constructed in the early 4th century AD, replacing a Roman bath. A century later, a prefect named Leontios replaced…
Inside the crypt of Hagios Demetrios
Walls of Thessaloniki
Rotunda of St George
Church of the Acheiropoietos