Catholic Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour - Frankokklesia
Former Ottoman mosque turned Catholic church, with a wooden arch listing fallen Philhellenes.
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This guide to the Catholic Church of the Transfiguration in Nafplio, the Frankoklisia, follows the money behind a building that kept changing faiths: a widow's memorial mosque, a town council's handover to King Otto's Bavarian soldiers, and a French officer who opened his own purse in eighteen forty-one. It touches the foreigners who fought in the Greek War of Independence and the old vaulted crypt beside the church. Stand just inside the entrance, facing the door you came through.
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