Holy Church of Saint Panteleimon
Late Byzantine cross-in-square monastery church with patterned brickwork and surviving side chapels.
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This guide to the Holy Church of Saint Panteleimon in Thessaloniki opens in the 1330s, when a priest with a legal question had to search two separate sets of books. It follows Matthew Blastares, a monk who lived and worked in the monastery here, and the ambitious reference work he set out to compile. Along the way you'll look at the church's patterned brickwork and the side chapels that survive. Best heard standing in front of the entrance porch.
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