Saint Panteleimon of Acharnai | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Greek Orthodox |
District | Archbishopric of Athens |
Location | |
Location | Athens, Greece |
Geographic coordinates | 38°00′27″N 23°43′44″E / 38.0075°N 23.728889°E |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Ioannis Papadakis, Georgios Nomikos |
Style | Byzantine Revival architecture |
Completed | 1930 (partly) |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 2,400 m2 |
Length | 63 m (outer) |
Width | 48 m (outer) |
The church of Saint Panteleimon of Acharnai (Greek: Άγιος Παντελεήμων Αχαρνών)[1] is a Greek Orthodox basilica in the center of Athens. It has a maximum length of 63 m and width 48 m and it is the biggest[2][3] church of Greece. The church is in the downtown of the modern city of Athens, close to the high-traffic Acharnon Avenue.
The foundations of the church were laid on 12 September 1910 by King George I of Greece and it was consecrated on 22 June 1930. The church's interior paintings were created by the painter Giannis Karouzos (1937-2013). It took him 23 years to complete the painting of the 6,000 m2 surface of the interior walls of the church.[4]
Other sources consider the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Patras and not the Church of Saint Panteleimon of Acharnai to be the largest Orthodox church in Greece.