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Opening of the Greek Orthodox chuch of Saint Nicholas in Liverpool, 1869.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Saints Raphael, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Liverpool, Religious practices, United Kingdom

The Greek Orthodox chuch of Saint Nicholas in Liverpool, 1869.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Church of Saint Nicholas (Liverpool), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Liverpool, Modes of transport, Religious practices, United Kingdom, Women

The Archibishop of Athens receiving King George I of Greece in front of the cathedral of Athens, 1863.

Tags: Athens, Attica, Cathedral Church of Athens (Metropolis), Children, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, George I of Greece, Greece, Kings, Priests, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Vestments (liturgical garments), Women

George I of Greece attends the liturgy at the Greek church of Chirst Saviour in London, 1863.

Tags: Carpets, Children, Church of Christ the Saviour (London), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, George I of Greece, Kings, London, Priests, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, United Kingdom, Vestments (liturgical garments), Women

View of the church of Our Lady on Tinos island. January 1850

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Church of Our Lady of Tinos, Churches, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Religious practices, Tinos, Women

Exterior and interior view of the Greek church of Christ Saviour at the London Wall. January 1850.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Church of Christ the Saviour (London), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, London, Religious practices, United Kingdom, Views, Women

The monastery of Hagios Gerasimos at the feet of Mount Ainos, Cephalonia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cephalonia, Churches, Frankish architecture, Frankish monuments, Greece, Ionian islands, Monastery of Hagios Gerasimos (Cephalonia), Mount Ainos, Mountains, Religious practices

The temple of Zeus Olympian and the Evangelical Church of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Churches, Evangelical Church of Athens, Greece, Houses, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Religious practices, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

1. Cave of the oracle of Heracles Vouraikos close to Aigion 2. Medieval relief seen by the author in Aigion. 3. Ancient relief seen by the author at church in Aigion. 4. Inscription seen by the author at the now-lost church of the Presentation of the Virgin (Eisodia Theotokou), Aigion. Today a building by Ernst Ziller stands on the site of the church.

Tags: Achaia, Aigion, Art and antiquities, Cave of Heracles Vouraikos (Aigion), Church of Hagios Georgios (Aigion), Church of the Presentation of the Virgin / Eisodia Theotokou (Aigion), Churches, Greece, Inscriptions, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Reliefs

1. Relief from Argos. 2. Ancient relief incorporated into the walls of the church of the Dormition of the Virgin (Koimisis Theotokou) at the village of Hagia Triada (or Merbaka), Argolis.

Tags: Argolis, Argos, Art and antiquities, Church of the Dormition of Our Lady (Merbaka), Churches, Greece, Hagia Triada/ Merbaka (Peloponnese), Peloponnese, Reliefs

1,2. Fountain with Roman relief from the church of Hagios Ioannis Theologos at Mystras. 3,4,5: Antiquities from Mystras.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Church of Hagios Ioannis Theologos (Mystras), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Irrigation systems, Laconia, Mystras, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Roman architecture, Views, Women

Plan of the early Christian basilica built on the site of Pheidias's workshop at ancient Olympia. Architectural features and reconstruction of parts of the structure.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Churches, Early Christian Monuments, Elis, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Workshop of Pheidias (Olympia)

The altar of the church of the Dormition of the Virgin (Koimisis Theotokou) at Neo Voulkano Monastery. Plan of the church.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of the Dormition of the Our Lady (Voulcano), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ithome, Messenia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Priests, Religious practices

View of the Byzantine monastery of Panagia Samarina at Androusa.

Tags: Androusa, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hagia Samarina (church), Human types, Messenia, Peloponnese, Professions, Religious practices, Sheep, Shepherds

Section and plan of the Byzantine monastery of Panagia Samarina at Androusa.

Tags: Androusa, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Greece, Hagia Samarina (church), Messenia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Religious practices

View and plan of the church of Hagios Georgios at Androusa.

Tags: Androusa, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Church of Hagios Georgios (Androusa), Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Frankish architecture, Frankish monuments, Greece, Human types, Messenia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Religious practices

1. Plan of early Byzantine basilica at Loutsa, close to Foinikounta, Messenia. 2, 3. Roman ruins at Loutra, close to Foinikounta, Messenia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Foinikounta, Greece, Messenia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

1, 2. View and plan of the now-lost Catholic church of Saint John (San Giovanni Evangelista), converted into a mosque (Beyazit Veli mosque) during Ottoman rule, in Methoni. Today only the base of one minaret is preserved. 3. One of the two stone bridges at the environs of Methoni which were demolished in the mid-20th century.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Beyazit Veli mosque (Methoni), Bridges, Church of Saint John / San Giovanni Evangelista (Methoni), Churches, Greece, Human types, Messenia, Methoni, Mosques, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Rivers, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views

Section of church at Methoni. Frescoes from the same church.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Churches, Frescoes, Greece, Methoni, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings

1. Plan of the church of Agioleo (Saint Leon) at Palaiomethoni. This was probably the site of the now-lost Cistercian monastery of De viridario beatae Mariae at Paliomethoni, close to Methoni. 2. View of the monastery of Hagios Vasileios, close to the early Christian catacombs of Saint Onuphrius.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Church of Agioleo (Methoni), Church of Hagios Vasileios (Methoni), Churches, Greece, Methoni, Monasteries, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings

1. Fountain close to Pylos. 2. Plan of church. 3. Stone bridge at Metaxada, close to Pylos.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bridges, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Messenia, Peloponnese, Pylos, Tebts

Section and plan of the church of Metamorfosis (formerly a mosque) at Niokastro, Pylos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Castle of Pylos (Niokastro), Church of Metamorfosis (Pylos), Churches, Greece, Messenia, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Pylos

The church of Hagioi Theodoroi at Klauthmonos Square, Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Central Greece, Church of Hagioi Theodoroi (Athens), Churches, Greece, Houses, Religious practices

Part of an inscription, according to tradition the one which hung over the Holy Cross, today kept at Santa Croce Basilica, Rome.

Tags: Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem (Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ), Churches, Italy, Religious practices, Rome

Mosaic from the basilica of Santa Maria di Trastevere in Rome (twelfth century).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Maria di Trastevere (Rome), Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome

Vrefokratoussa mosaic at the church of Santa Maria in Domnica, Rome (ninth century).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Maria in Domnica (Rome), Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome, Vrefokratousa (Virgin holding infant Jesus)

The tomb of Agnès and Clemence, descendants of Robert of Anjou at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of princess Maria of Durazzo, granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Maria of Durazzo, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of Queen Joanna I (1328-1382), granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Joanna I of Anjou, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of Maria of Calabria, granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples. Tomb of Louis of Anjou, great-grandson of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Louis of Durazzo, Maria of Calabria, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy

Tomb of Charles III, son of Robert of Anjou at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Charles II of Anjou, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy

The tomb of Robert of Anjou or Robert the Wise, King of Naples (1277 – 1343) at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples. The tomb is the work of eminent Florentine artists Paccio and Giovanni Bertini.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Giovanni Bertini, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Pacio Bertini, Religious practices, Robert of Anjou (Robert the Wise), Sculptors, Sculptures, Southern Italy

Interior of the church of Santa Constanza in Rome, built by Constantine I in memory of his daughter, Constantia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Constanza (Rome), Churches, Constans, Early Christian Monuments, Emperors, Funerary monuments, Human types, Italy, Prayer, Religious practices, Rome

Mosaic of the sixth century at the basilica of Santi Cosma e Damiano, which was built on the site of Romulus's temple at the Forum of Rome.

Tags: Arquitecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Churches, Italy, Mosaics, Religious practices, Rome, Temple of Romulus / Santi Cosma e Damiano (Rome)

View of the first court, also known as court of the Janissaries, at Topkapi palace. On the left, the church of Saint Irene. In the background, the Gate of the Salutation or Middle Gate, leading to the Second Court of the palace.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Gate of the Salutation (Bab-üs Selam), Golden Horn, Hagia Irene (Istanbul), Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman palaces, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Views

68. Ancient Greek inscription from Anactorion, Aetolia and Acarnania. 170. Ancient Greek inscription discovered in the church of Panagia Parigoritissa, Arta. 171. Ancient Greek inscription from bridge at Trikala. 172. Ancient Greek inscription from Gardiki, Trikala.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Anactorion, Art and antiquities, Arta, Church of Parigoritissa (Arta), Churches, Epirus, Gardiki, Greece, Inscriptions, Thessaly, Trikala

161, 162. Ancient Greek inscriptions from Preveza. 163, 165. Ancient Greek inscriptions from church altar in Katochi (ancient Oiniadae). Aetolia and Acarnania. 164. Ancient Greek inscription from Thyrreion (older Agios Vaslileios), Aetolia and Acarnania. The inscription was discovered by the author on the wall of a house. 166, 167. Ancient Greek inscriptions from Vonitsa. 169. Ancient Greek inscription from church at Paramythia.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Churches, Greece, Inscriptions, Paramythia, Preveza, Thyrreion, Vonitsa

Plan of the early Christian basilica at the site of Chalasma, near the village of Chrysaugi (older Velliani) in Paramythia, Epirus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Chalasma, Chrysavgi, Churches, Early Christian Monuments, Epirus, Greece, Plans and drawings

118-121. Ancient Greek inscriptions from Paroikia, Paros. 122. Ancient Greek inscription, part of relief from the quarries of Marathi, Paros, near Agios Minas. 123. Ancient Greek inscription from Vatopedi monastery. 124. Ancient inscription in Greek and Latin from Vatopedi monastery.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Agios Minas (Paros), Art and antiquities, Churches, Greece, Inscriptions, Monasteries, Monastery of Vatopedi (Mount Athos), Mount Athos, Paros, Quarries

Map of ancient Anactorion, which was situated on the site of modern-day Vonitsa.

Tags: Acarnania, Acropoleis, Acropolis of Anactorion, Anactorion, Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Church of Hagios Petros (Vonitsa), Churches, Greece, Maps, Vonitsa

21, 22. Ancient Greek inscriptions from Tithorea (Velitsa) in Phhiotis. 23. Ancient Greek inscription from the castle of Amphicleia (Dadi). 24. Ancient Greek inscription on rock near the theatre of Glafyra (older Kapourna) near Volos. 25. Inscription from Glafyra. 26. Inscription from sarcophagus at Kapourna. 27. Inscription from church at Glafyra.

Tags: Amphicleia, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Churches, Funerary monuments, Glafyra, Greece, Inscriptions, Phthiotis, Sarcophagi, Thessaly, Tithorea / Velitsa

Inscription from Roman sarcophagus supposed to be the tomb of Saint Luke the Evangelist, at the church of Hagios Loukas, Thebes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Churches, Funerary monuments, Greece, Hagios Loukas (Thebes), Inscriptions, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Sarcophagi, Thebes (Greece), Tomb of Saint Luke the Evangelist (Thebes)

1. Ancient Greek inscription from Evinochori (or Bochori) in Aetolia and Acarnania. 2. Ancient Greek inscription from Lepenos in Aetolia and Acarnania. 3. Ancient Greek inscription from Sisani. 4, 5. Ancient Greek inscription from Apollonia in Illyria (today in Albania). 6. Ancient Greek inscription from fountain near the church of Hagios Ioannis Prodromos in Kalabaka. 7,8. Ancient Greek inscriptions from the cathedral church of Trikala.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Albania, Apollonia in Illyria (Pojani), Art and antiquities, Cathedral of Trikala, Church of Hagios Ioannis Prodromos (Kalabaka), Churches, Epirus, Evinochori/ Bochori, Greece, Inscriptions, Kalabaka, Lepeno, Sisani

Map of Zalongo and Cassope.

Tags: Acropolis of Cassope, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cassope, Churches, Epirus, Greece, Maps, Zalongo

Map of Arta, showing the main monuments.

Tags: Acropolis of Arta, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Arta, Bridge of Arta, Bridges, Church of Parigoritissa (Arta), Churches, Epirus, Greece, Maps

Inscription from the Byzantine church of Panagia Parigoritissa, Arta.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Arta, Byzantine monuments, Church of Parigoritissa (Arta), Churches, Epirus, Greece, Inscriptions

Plan of the Byzantine church of Agioi Saranta at Saranda, Albania. The plan was drawn by the author, based on the remains of the church.

Tags: Albania, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Churches, Epirus, Plans and drawings, Religious practices, Saranda/ gr. Agioi Saranta

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