Church of Panagia Chalkeon
Red-brick Byzantine church of ten twenty-eight with its founder's tomb and fragmentary frescoes.
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This guide to the Church of Panagia Chalkeon in Thessaloniki follows Christopher, a Byzantine court official and governor in southern Italy, who founded the red-brick church with his family in ten twenty-eight. It touches the Ottoman centuries when the building served as a mosque, and the earthquakes that shook its walls in the last century. Best heard outside the west door, beneath the founder's marble inscription.
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