Church of Saint Catherine

The Church of Saint Catherine is a Byzantine church from the late 13th century. The building was originally intended to be a church for the Christós Pantodýnamos Monastery. Under Bayezid II (1481 - 1512), it was transformed into a mosque. A restoration took place from 1947 to 1951. Since 1988, it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site among "Paleochristian and Byzantine buildings of Thessaloniki".

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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" .

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Alaca Imaret

Alaca Imaret is a 15th-century mosque founded in 1484 during the reign of Mehmed II. The place functioned as an imaret (soup kitchen), a madrasa (priestly school) and a place of prayer. It owes its name of Alaca to its coloured minaret (Alaca = coloured). In 1970, as the northern part of the portico had collapsed in the previous year, maintenance work was carried out for the first time, which was repeated in 1993-1996.