Holy Church of the Trasfiguration of the Saviour
Tiny fourteenth-century Byzantine chapel sunk below street level, its tall dome ringed with frescoes.
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This guide to the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Thessaloniki, a small fourteenth-century Byzantine chapel on Egnatia Street, starts with a sum that will not balance: one coin, two graves, two names. It follows the restorers who went to work after the nineteen seventy-eight earthquake, and the anonymous painters who filled the dome with three rings of figures. Stand by the door, or inside beneath the dome if it is open.
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