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Modern Description: Remains of a substantial 2nd c. CE Roman bath, with patches of mosaic floor, were excavated under and E of the church. Some mosaic and walls are visible in the crypt. Inscriptions date the church to 1044 or earlier. Monastic buildings associated with the church were destroyed in a 1701 earthquake. The semi-ruined church was bought by the Russian state in 1847 and refurbished for use by the Russian community in Athens.
[Judith Binder: Panagia Tou Lykodemou variously called Hag. Nikodemos [the original name] and Hag. Lykodemos (now the Russian Orthodox Church), 11th c., Philellenon St. (Plan 1 delta/epsilon—11, no. 85): Maltezos, G. T. 1960, 61-62 no.6; Biris, K. 1966, 44-45 no. 16; EMME 11,1929, 80-83, 115, figs. 76-83; Lynch, J. P. 1972, 17-22; Ritchie Jr., C. E. 1989, 256-257]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Athens
Wikidata ID: Q4400515
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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