Church of Hosios David

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, iv
Reference	456
UNESCO region	Europe
Coordinates	40°38′30″N 22°57′08″E / 40.641792°N 22.9523°E / 40.641792; 22.9523
Inscription history
Inscription	1988 (12th Session)

The Church of Hosios David (Greek: Όσιος Δαβίδ) is a late 5th-century church in Thessaloniki, Greece. In Byzantine times, it functioned as the katholikon of the Latomos Monastery (Greek: Μονή Λατόμου/Λατόμων), and received a rich mosaic and fresco decoration, which was renewed in the 12th–14th centuries. The surviving examples are of high artistic quality. Under Ottoman rule, the building was converted into a mosque (probably in the 16th century), until it was reconsecrated as a Greek Orthodox church in 1921, receiving its present name. In 1988, included among the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

Sources

• Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou, E.; Tourta, A. (1997), Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki, Kapon Editions, pp. 91–99, ISBN 960-7254-47-3 

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