Construction interventions in the byzantine church of St Catherine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Abstract
In 1841 a careful building intervention was made to the eleventh-century church of St Catherine in Plaka, occasioned by its conversion from a dependency (metochi) of the Sinai monastery into a parish church, after the demolition of the neighbouring church of the Virgin Kandele. Instrumental in these works were the city architect Laurent and General Makrygiannis. The ambulatory around the Middle Byzantine nucleus was added before 1870, while the new dome was constructed between 1917 and 1927, according to plans by Ph. Oikonomou.
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ΚΑΡΑΝΗ Ι. (2011). Construction interventions in the byzantine church of St Catherine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 28, 147–156. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.581
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