Little Metropolis church (Athens)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 13, 2026 01:31 PM
—
History
The Little Metropolis church or Panagia Gorgoepikoos is a Frankish, Late Byzantine, or Ottoman-period domed cross-in-square church in central Athens. It is decorated with spolia from earlier structures.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705446488
37.9750613099, 23.7300150432
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mary the Gorgoepicous and Saint Eleutherius (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
-
- Little Metropolis (English, unspecified date range)
- Μικρή Μητρόπολη (Mikri Mitropoli: Modern Greek)
- Ναός της Θεοτόκου Γοργοεπήκοου και Αγίου Ελευθερίου (Naos tis Theotokou Gorgoepikoou kai Agiou Eleftheriou: Modern Greek)
- Little Metropolis church (Athens) located at Athenae (modern)
-
None
church
Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Little Metropolis church (Athens): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705446488> [accessed: 06 March 2026]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705446488 |title=Places: 705446488 (Little Metropolis church (Athens)) |author=de Lisle, C. |accessdate=March 6, 2026 4:24 am |publisher=Pleiades}}