Churches in Greece

A seaside castle complex that stood through centuries of conquests.

This sixth-century church housed an icon with eyes so beautiful legend has it they inspired the name of a Greek city.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

The Greek War of Independence was declared at this medieval Byzantine sanctuary.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

The oldest standing Byzantine church in Athens is tucked within a monastery in the middle of an upscale shopping district.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This small chapel holds the mummified heart of one of the heroes of the Greek Revolution.

Scores of wax baby figurines add an unusual mood to this beautiful church on the Greek coast.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.