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Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos

Bijgewerkt 2026Te voet gecontroleerdAgias Sofias street, near the centre

One of the oldest churches in the city still in continuous use — a 5th-century early-Christian basilica with elegant columns and fine mosaic fragments.

The brick exterior of the Byzantine Acheiropoietos basilica, Thessaloniki — Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos · Byzantine (5th c.)

Periode

Byzantine (5th c.)

Locatie

City centre

Toegang

Free

Openingstijden

Open daily with a midday break

Benodigde Tijd

15–20 minutes

Beoordeling

4.8★ · 868 beoordelingen

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Geschiedenis

Hoe het ontstond

Built around 450 AD, it is among the earliest surviving basilicas in the Christian world and part of Thessaloniki's UNESCO monuments. After the 1430 conquest it became the first of the city's churches turned into a mosque — by Sultan Murad II himself, who made it Thessaloniki's principal mosque — and an Ottoman inscription on a column still records the event.

Wat Je Ziet

Bij een bezoek

The colonnaded interior, the surviving mosaic soffits between the arches, and the sense of standing in a 1,500-year-old space.

Hoe te Bezoeken

Central and step-free.

Beste Tijd

Morning

Galerij

Bereikbaarheid

Locatie

City centre · Agias Sofias street, near the centre

Routebeschrijving

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Goed om te Weten

It means 'made without hands', a reference to a miraculous icon of the Virgin once kept here.

It's a 5th-century early-Christian basilica — one of the oldest churches in Thessaloniki still in continuous use, and among the earliest surviving churches anywhere. Elegant columns and fine early mosaic fragments remain inside, and it's one of the city's fifteen UNESCO-listed monuments.

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