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Church of Saint Catherine, Thessaloniki

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Location
  
Greece

Criteria
  
i, ii, iv

UNESCO region
  
Europe

UNESCO World Heritage Site inscription
  
1988

Type
  
Cultural

Reference
  
456

Phone
  
+30 231 022 5580

Church of Saint Catherine, Thessaloniki

Address
  
Thessaloniki 546 32, Greece

Similar
  
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The Church of Saint Catherine (Greek: Αγία Αικατερίνη) is a late Byzantine church in the northwestern corner of the old city of Thessaloniki, Greece. The church dates to the Palaiologan period, but its exact dating and original dedication are unknown. From its interior decoration, which survives in fragments and is dated to ca. 1315, it has been suggested that it was the katholikon of the Monastery of the Almighty. It was converted to a mosque by Yakup Pasha in the reign of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) and named after him Yakup Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Yakup Paşa Camii). In 1988, it was included among the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

References

Church of Saint Catherine, Thessaloniki Wikipedia