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Agii Assomati sta Skalia



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Agii Assomati sta Skalia
(Saint Assomati on the Steps)



The church known as Saint Assomati on the Step was a mid-Byzantine church dedicated to the Archangels. It used to be attached to the exterior western wall of Hadrian’s Library next to its entrance, a few meters south of the Tzistarakis Mosque on Monastiraki square. Today only fragments of the church’s mural paintings have been preserved on the library’s wall.

The church’s form is known through its depictions by foreign travelers of the 18th and 19th century. The church was of the cross-in-square type with an eight sided dome, built in the 11th century. The inscriptions on the library’s columns indicate that the church belonged to the Chalkokondylis family.

The church was repaired in 1576. At this time the mural paintings, fragments of which have been preserved, were made. The church was demolished ca. 1842 in order to carry out archaeological research to reveal finds from the classical antiquity.

Locaton map Entrance Hadrian’s Library
Nearest metro station Monastiraki
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