Holy Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary
Neoclassical domed cathedral built with marble salvaged from seventy-two demolished churches.
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This guide to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens opens on Easter Sunday 1821, when an angry sultan in Constantinople had his own archbishop, Patriarch Gregory the Fifth, hanged from a gate and his body thrown into the Bosphorus. It follows a passing Greek merchant ship that pulled the body from the water and kept it safe abroad for decades, and it introduces Philothei, a nun killed in 1589 for ransoming Greek women from Ottoman harems. Stand quietly near the marble shrine inside the cathedral while you listen.
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