Church of the Acheiropoietos
Fifth-century basilica with original arch mosaics of birds, fish and vessels, later a city mosque.
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This guide to the Church of the Acheiropoietos in Thessaloniki starts at a carved date on one column that doesn't match the year the city fell. It moves between the anonymous fifth-century mosaicists who decorated the arches, a miraculous icon said to be made without hands, and Sultan Murad II, who turned the church into a mosque. Stand in the north aisle, near the eighth column from the east, to start.
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