Church of Hosios David

The former Latomos Monastery (Greek Μονή Λατόμου, Moní Latómou ) in Thessaloniki since 1988 has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage ( Early Christian and Byzantine buildings in Thessaloniki ). It lies at the foothills of the Acropolis.

History

The name of the monastery dates back to the quarries in the area. The sooner the Saviour monastery church, dedicated, whose foundation can be traced back to the 5th century, was decorated with decorative mosaics and frescoes, from an anonymous, in a report of the abbot of the monastery Akapníou from the 9th century as Theodora, daughter of the Emperor Galerius named woman were donated. The mosaics were retrieved according to the report, during the reign of Emperor Leo the Armenian. The church was renovated in the 12th century and painted in the new episode with frescoes. Well in the 16th century it was converted into a mosque ( or Σουλιτζέ Κεραμεντίν τζαμί ), which again became the Christian Church in 1921 and then was named Osios David.

Construction

The square in their original investments church with a semicircular apse and inscribed Greek cross, whose arms bore barrel vault, had a flat dome over the crossing and four Eckkuppeln. The church is considered Vorläuferbau the cross-domed churches. The western part of the obtained only as a torso church was probably destroyed in the 16th century.

Equipment

Significant is the exposed around 1921 mosaic of the time it was built in the apse, representing the enthroned on the rainbow beardless Christ in the aureole, open under whose feet the four Paradise streams in the Jordan, on the sides of the prophet Ezekiel, and Habakkuk. The 1972-1975 uncovered frescoes in the aisles date from the Byzantine period.