Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is the Catholic Cathedral of Thessaloniki. The building was completed in 1902 according to a design by Vitaliano Poselli.

About this building

Key Features

  • Architecture

Visitors information

  • Parking within 250m
  • Café within 500m

Other nearby buildings

Church of Panagia Chalkeon

The church of Panagia Chalkeon, often called "red church", is a Byzantine church built in the 11th century on an old pagan house of worship. Two events affected the church in the twentieth century: a fire in 1917 and an earthquake in 1932, which caused considerable damage and led to the restoration of the Panagia Chalkeon. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a Byzantine monument in Thessaloniki.

Hagios Demetrios

The Basilica of St. Demetrius is a church founded on the site of the Roman baths in the 4th century. After earthquakes and fires in the 7th century, a new basilica was erected. During the Turkish reign, in 1493, it was transformed into a mosque "Kasımiye Camii", until the return of the city in Greece in 1912. During a fire in 1917, the building was badly damaged. The restoration works of the basilica began in the 30s and continued until 1948. In 1988, the basilica was inscribed on the list of World Heritage sites along with other "Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki" .