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The church/(mosque) of Transfiguration of Savior, at Niokastro, Pylos, south-western Messinia, Peloponnese, Greece Germanidou, Sophia

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The building currently used as the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at Niokastro castle, in Pylos, south-western Messinia, is one of the largest preserved examples of muslim and christian religious place in the post-medieval Peloponnese. It was first build as mosque during Murad III’s sultan reign (1574 and 1595), then it was transformed into a catholic church under the Venetian rule (1686-1715) dedicated to saint Vito, and finally today orthodox christian ritual is performed at the feast day of Transfiguration of Christ. The building shares features of ottoman and post-byzantine architecture such as the portico, the eight-sided dome, the mihrabs, the minaret, the islamic arches. It is square in ground plan, with four large pillars carrying the central dome, and four barrel vaults that radiate cruciformly from it.

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The church/(mosque) of Transfiguration of Savior, at Niokastro, Pylos, south-western Messinia, Peloponnese, Greece
Creator
Germanidou, Sophia
Contributor
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Publisher
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Date Issued
2022-03-10
Description
The building currently used as the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior at Niokastro castle, in Pylos, south-western Messinia, is one of the largest preserved examples of muslim and christian religious place in the post-medieval Peloponnese. It was first build as mosque during Murad III’s sultan reign (1574 and 1595), then it was transformed into a catholic church under the Venetian rule (1686-1715) dedicated to saint Vito, and finally today orthodox christian ritual is performed at the feast day of Transfiguration of Christ. The building shares features of ottoman and post-byzantine architecture such as the portico, the eight-sided dome, the mihrabs, the minaret, the islamic arches. It is square in ground plan, with four large pillars carrying the central dome, and four barrel vaults that radiate cruciformly from it.
Subject
Religious Group; Islamic Traditions; Roman Religious Traditions; Religious Place; Monument; Roman Catholic; Catholic; Orthodoxy; Greece; Archaeological monument
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2023-12-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0438199
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86877
Affiliation
Non UBC
Citation
Sophia Germanidou. (2022). The church/(mosque) of Transfiguration of Savior, at Niokastro, Pylos, south-western Messinia, Peloponnese, Greece. Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.
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Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Researcher
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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