Holy Church of Saint Catherine
Late Byzantine brick church with fourteenth-century frescoes, once an Ottoman mosque.
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This guide to the Holy Church of Saint Catherine in Thessaloniki begins just after the Second World War, with a restoration crew at work inside a Byzantine church that had spent centuries as the Yakup Pasha Mosque. It reaches back to the painters of around thirteen fifteen, linked to the workshop that served a Serbian king, and to a building whose original name nobody knows. Stand beneath the main dome to start, and save time for the brick walls outside.
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