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Sacred Places of Athens

Sacred Places of Athens

Athens · Greece

14 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Athens with a focus on sacred places, moving among churches, Islamic monuments, a synagogue, and an ancient place of worship. You will encounter different religious traditions and dedications, from the Annunciation and Saint George to Athena Nike and Etz Hayyim. The walk is worth taking for the contrast between these forms of worship and the varied ways they are represented in the city.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation

    Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation

    Holy Metropolitan Church of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, a Christian church in Athens

  2. Saint George Karytsis

    Saint George Karytsis

    A church rebuilt after 1821, whose failed dome still explains its sturdy outline.

  3. Church of Panagia Kapnikarea

    Church of Panagia Kapnikarea

    An eleventh-century church that survived Athens’s nineteenth-century redesign and still serves worshippers.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Tzistarakis Mosque

    Tzistarakis Mosque

    A former Ottoman mosque with a scandalous column story and a long afterlife as a museum.

  6. Fethiye Mosque

    Fethiye Mosque

    A seventeenth-century mosque built over a Byzantine basilica, now an exhibition space.

  7. Transfiguration of the Saviour

    Transfiguration of the Saviour

    A tiny Byzantine church whose walls record Athens under Byzantine and Ottoman rule.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.