THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Under fluttering strings of Greek and Byzantine flags, three men raised a party tent on the terrace of the 5th century Osios David church one recent Saturday, hoping it ...

The Byzantine Empire left an indelible mark on Greece’s landscape, building churches that glow with gold mosaics, marble icon screens, and sacred silence. Each one tells a story of devotion, ...

Greece is restoring restoration the Byzantine Church of Agios Nikolaos Ragkavas in Plaka, one of the most significant in ...

The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of ...

A series of public lectures on Byzantine Church Architecture by Professor K. J. Conant '15, associate professor of architecture has just been announced. Professor Conant has just returned from his ...

A tourist in costume poses for a photo at a square of architecture art in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, ...

Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress erected in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, William of Villehardouin. Reconquered by the Byzantines, then occupied by ...

The Turkish government has decided to turn a 12th-century Byzantine church into a mosque, a fate like that of Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia, says a report. The Church of the Holy Savior in Chora, ...

The Associated Press A party tent is raised on the sea-facing terrace of the 5th-century church of Osios David on June 25 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Later that day, a festival would be celebrated there ...