Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Gregory Palamas
Domed Byzantine Revival cathedral holding a medieval archbishop's relics, rebuilt after an 1890 fire.
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This guide to the Holy Metropolitan Church of Saint Gregory Palamas in Thessaloniki follows the people who actually built and painted it, from the architect Ernst Ziller and his site supervisor in the eighteen nineties to a painter who arrived from Constantinople in nineteen eleven. It turns on soft seaside ground, a stalled building site and a quarrel over the plans. Best heard standing under the great dome, looking up at the walls.
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