Transfiguration of Jesus Church in Thessaloniki by George Groutas

The Church of the Saviour ( el, Ναός του Σωτήρος, ''Naós tou Sotíros'') is a 14th-century

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

chapel in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

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. It is a

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as one of the

Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki The city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, for several centuries the second-most important city of the Byzantine Empire, played an important role for Christianity during the Middle Ages and was decorated by impressive buildings. Because of The ...

. The church has been dated to about 1350, based on a coin found within its dome during archaeological investigations and restoration work following the

1978 Thessaloniki earthquake The 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake ( el, Μεγάλος Σεισμός της Θεσσαλονίκης) occurred on 20 June at . The shock registered 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale, had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), and was ...

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