Holy Church of the Holy Apostles of Solakis (10th c.)
Tenth-century domed church atop a Roman fountain shrine, walls reused from ancient marble ruins.
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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.
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