Holy Church of the Holy Apostles of Solakis (10th c.)

This guide to the Holy Church of the Holy Apostles of Solakis in Athens starts with the tangle of bell towers and add-ons that had buried the little domed church by the 1880s, and how archaeologists spent 1954 to 1956 peeling away that later renovation to reach a stone church raised around the year 1000. You'll hear how its builders reused marble from ruined pagan temples and a Roman fountain house on the same ground, and what the looping Kufic-style brick patterns and the small dome inside made this building the first of its kind in Athens. Look for those reused blocks worked into the walls as you go.