Holy Church of the All-Great Taxiarchs
Two-storey Byzantine monastery church with a burial crypt and brick-patterned east wall.
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This guide to the Holy Church of the All-Great Taxiarchs in Thessaloniki's upper town reads a fourteenth-century monastery church as a physical object, floor by floor and wall by wall. You'll hear about the monks who prayed under a timber roof and the half-buried level beneath them, the stone-and-brick patchwork of the Byzantine city's builders, and a puzzle about two archangels that runs through the building's Ottoman years. Best heard from the lane at the church's east end.
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