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Church of the Panagia Achiropiitos

TIME : 2016/2/18 19:01:37

This basilica-style 5th-century Byzantine church has notable mosaics and frescoes. The name, meaning ‘made without hands’, refers to a miraculous 12th-century appearance of an icon of the Virgin. It was the first of Thessaloniki's churches to be transformed into a mosque under Ottoman rule.