Holy Church of Saints Menas, Victor and Vincent
Fire-scarred basilica, rebuilt in 1852, with gilded baroque interior and a hidden crypt of monks.
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This guide to the Church of Saints Menas, Victor and Vincent in Thessaloniki begins on the twentieth of June, nineteen seventy-eight, when an earthquake left an old, much-burned church in need of repair. It reaches back through the fires that gave the Ottoman-era quarter its nickname, and to the restorers who came expecting cracked plaster. Best heard standing in the nave, facing the carved wooden screen.
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