Church of Hagia Aikaterini, view from N-W.

Area: Athens, Plaka
Type: Cross-in-Square
Date: 11th century

Description:

The church, which is dated to the second quarter of the 11th century, is one of the oldest churches in Athens (of the same architectural type). It is a complex, four-columned, cross-in-square church with an Athenian dome. Initially it must have been dedicated to Hagios Theodoros, as indicated by the votive inscription preserved in a fragment of a big, cylindrical column supporting the altar, Nowadays, it has undergone vulgar alterations. It is situated in the district Alikokko in Plaka, close to the monument of Lysikrates. It has been frescoed by G. D. Kaphis or Kaphetzidakis in the end of the 19th century.

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