Karipeion Melathron

The Karipion MELATHRON (Greek Καρίπειον Μέλαθρον ) was the residence of the Ottoman governor of the region of Macedonia in Selânik, today Thessaloniki.

The building was built by the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli in the 1870s. Poselli was in the service of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1907, it is found in an Ottoman tax register as the residence of Abdurrahman Bey, son of Suleiman. After the Ottoman army was defeated in the Balkan wars, the building was taken over by Greek possession. 1928 it acquired S. Nottaridis for 425,000 drachmas and took indoors in front of numerous conversions. In 1980 the building was declared a national monument and restored the interior between 1995 and 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Education for the purposes of edification state. Today the building houses the Institute for National and Religious Studies.