Holy Church of Saint Demetrius
Five-aisled Byzantine basilica of reused marble, rebuilt after fire, above a Roman bath crypt.
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This guide to the Holy Church of Saint Demetrius in Thessaloniki begins around the year three hundred and three, with a Roman officer held in a bathhouse over which the church was later built. It follows the pilgrims who carried fragrant myrrh home in little lead bottles, and the builders who reused older marble after a fire in the early six hundreds. Best heard standing in the nave, where you can look up at the column tops.
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