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Agia Marina martyred and beheaded at the age of just fifteen fox door knocker years old. The people has combined its name with the verb wither, believing that such Marana daemon presented in front of the prison, thus fading and disease, reptiles, and the bad guys.
The hill of Nymphs or the Observatory hill is rocky hill of Athens opposite the Temple of Theseus. Linked to the adjacent hills Philopappou (Muses Hill) and the Pnyx. At the top of the building there is the National Observatory of Athens, which has given the name of the hill and the adjacent district, in addition to which, around the hill are also districts Thissio and Petralona.
The carved into the rock of the hill of the Nymphs small cavernous church of Agia Marina, originally thought post-Byzantine, but has finally satisfied that existed during the middle Byzantine period. Its age, confirmed the discovery of frescoes of the 13th century. This is a vague shape small basement space, expanding east into too vague form apse sanctuary. When I. Travlos not, the carving of the rock was in ancient times, to create water tank. Temple there, and also a small niche carved into the rock with little fox door knocker depth served as Intent (conch on the northeast side of the sanctuary, symbolizing the sacred cave of the Nativity of the Lord).
The dome, which projects above the surface fox door knocker of the soil by 3 meters, seems to have been rebuilt during the Ottoman domination, perhaps by recycling the original materials. It is not known whether the Byzantine dome was also circular or eight-sided, as the other Athenian temples.
Inside rests on four arches, also carved into the rock, whose fronts are not in vertical planes or diameters are completely equal. Between them but normally formed plumes and the rim of the dome, partly fox door knocker product been cut, shaped full circle diameter of 2 meters. The hemisphere of the dome were originally deformed, while the two windows is actually not arched, but rectangular. The frescoes belong (in Ch. Koilakou) to the 17th century.
Details on the format of Agia Marina in the early 19th century fox door knocker by the different fox door knocker era architects plans. fox door knocker North of trouloskepous cave was monokamaro building without apse sanctuary and entrance fox door knocker to the east, as shown in the following figure of 1853 (AC Stilling).
It was probably a kind of splint the Byzantine chapel, from which the small square windows, looks likely to have been added during the Turkish occupation. A small arched belfry (bell tower) which was built on the dome survived until 1964.
The format of Agia Marina changed completely in the 1920s, to build a large new church, preceded by the demolition of the north building-vestibule. A small church was built around 1880 in the west of the building, also demolished.
In 1986 work was carried out restoration of the frescoes. Today, the entrance is from the side door of the large new church, the interior of which was attached to the basement chapel of Agia Marina, which holds more role baptistery where not allowed visitors when not committed mystery baptism.
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