Cathedral of Agios Titos, Plateia Agiou Titou, Heraklion, Greece : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Cathedral of Agios Titos, Plateia Agiou Titou, Heraklion, Greece / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1869, this Ottoman-era building was designed by Athanasios Mousis to serve as the New Mosque of the city of Candia, now known as Heraklion. The building replaced an earlier building, which had been built in the 1557, during the Venetian period, as a church, which was destroyed by the 1856 earthquake that destroyed much of the surrounding city. The building originally featured a minaret, and served as a mosque until after the Cretan State was created in 1898, being converted into a church and having its minaret removed in 1925, following the expulsion of the Greek Muslims from Crete. The building is clad in marble with two levels of stained glass windows, a decorative parapet, a rose window above the main entrance door, a domed roof, arabesque windows on the side and rear facades, arched entrance doors, a hipped red terra cotta tile roof, and the truncated base of the building’s former minaret at the western corner of the building (righthand side of the front facade). The church of St. Titus is dedicated to the first bishop of Crete, and the original church on the site contained the head of St. Titus, a holy relic, which was taken by the Venetians when they fled Candia in 1669. In 1966, the head of St. Titus was returned to the church by the city of Venice, returning to his original home after almost 300 years of absence. Today, the building serves as the Cathedral of Agios Titos, a Greek Orthodox Church, which became a Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Crete in 2013. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-05-26 15:20:46 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Heraklion, Crete, Greece 地図 |