Kishë Bizantine · Byzantine (5th c.)

Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos

Përditësuar 2026Kontrolluar në këmbëAgias 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.)
Periudha
Byzantine (5th c.)
Vendndodhja
City centre
Hyrja
Free
Orari
Open daily with a midday break
Kohë e Nevojshme
15–20 minutes
Vlerësimi
4.8★ · 868 vlerësime

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Historia

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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.

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

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Central and step-free.

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Morning

Galeria

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Vendndodhja
City centre · Agias Sofias street, near the centre

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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.