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Hagia Sophia, Thessaloniki

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Hagia Sophia is a Byzantine domed church of the late 7th century in central Thessaloniki, today the cathedral church of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki.

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The Ministry of Culture's Odysseus page says the church stands at the junction of Agias Sofias and Ermou streets and was built at the end of the 7th century on the site of a 5th-century five-aisled basilica destroyed by an earthquake around 620; the first written mention of it dates from 795. The same page says it was the Latin cathedral in 1204-1224, the Orthodox see again until 1523/24, then a mosque, and was reconsecrated for Christian worship on 29 June 1913, and that the Ascension mosaic in its dome dates from the late 9th century. The church's own website calls it the cathedral church of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki and places it near the church of the Acheiropoietos. This record is the Thessaloniki church, not Hagia Sophia in Istanbul or in Trabzon. Service times and visiting arrangements are not given here.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki is a city in Macedonia, Greece, on the Thermaic Gulf; the Greek National Tourism Organisation describes it as inhabited since prehistoric times, with archaeological sites, Byzantine churches and Ottoman monuments, and the White Tower on its waterfront. XTOUR maps the Roman and Byzantine monuments, churches and museums in the city itself, and keeps places elsewhere in Central Macedonia, such as Pella and Aigai at Vergina, apart from it.

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