The Holy Temple of the Virgin Mary of the Crusaders (Crosecchieri) forms part of the Latin Monastery of the Crusaders (Crosecchieri) whose other buildings have been destroyed. It is a basilica with three transepts of which the middle one is elevated. It was destroyed by the German bombings during the Battle of Crete in 1941 […]
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The temple was built in the early Venetian era next to the coastal city walls and served as the Katholikon of the Dominican Order. In its initial form the temple had a single transept and a wooden roof but four chapels were gradually added to it. The temple is of particular architectural importance featuring elements
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Agios Titos (Saint Titus) was the city’s largest and most imposing temple during the Second Byzantine period and also the Metropolis (Cathedral) of the Diocese of Crete. During the Venetian era it was the seat of the Latin Archbishop, and during the Ottoman period it was converted into a mosque and its belfry into a
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The new temple of Agios Matthaios (Saint Matthew) was built, probably as a family chapel, in the early 17th century, occupying the site of an older Byzantine temple which had been destroyed by an earthquake. Following the Ottoman conquest, it was given as a metochion (small monastic establishment) to the Saint Catherine’s Orthodox Monastery of
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The Museum of Christian Art “Saint Catherine of Sinai” is housed in a cruciform church dedicated to St. Catherine. It is located in the city center, close to the old and the current Metropolitan church of St. Minas.The church was founded in the second Byzantine period and was a centre of intellectual activity from the
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The small chapel next to Agios Minas Cathedral was built in the 17th century, and was initially consecrated to the Virgin Mary Pantanassa (Queen of All). Following the conquest of Crete by the Ottomans (1669), the chapel was abandoned for many years until 1735, when it was renovated in order to serve as the city’s
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Agios Minas (Saint Minas) is the patron saint of Heraklion and his temple was built in the mid-19th century, at a time when Ottoman reforms had led to a gradual improvement of the position of the Christian population of Crete. The temple was designed by the architect from Epirus Athanasios Mousis and construction began in
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