Monuments · Churches

The other churches of Arta

Agia Sophia, the Transfiguration, Agios Georgios Glykorrizou and other churches of the 17th–19th centuries.

Transfiguration
17th century, frescoes of 1625
Agia Sophia
1812
Agios Georgios Glykorrizou
1777
Panagia tou Brioni
1238

The Greek Wikipedia mentions many churches of Arta beyond the great Byzantine ones. Here is the list with the details it gives.

Byzantine and post-Byzantine

Panagia tou Brioni (1238) was blessed by Patriarch Germanos II. Agios Vasileios is dated 1300, with frescoes of the early 18th century. The Transfiguration of the Saviour is of the 17th century, with frescoes of 1625. In the old Metropolitan Church, of the Presentation of the Theotokos and Saint Mercurius, the iconostasis was carved and painted by Georgios Nomikos in 1697.

18th and 19th centuries

Agios Georgios tou Batzi dates from 1717, Agios Markos from 1770, Agia Paraskevi, near the castle, from 1771 and Agios Georgios Glykorrizou from 1777, with 18th-century icons. Agia Sophia is of 1812, with 19th-century frescoes and a carved iconostasis. The Metropolitan Cathedral, of Agios Dimitrios, dates from 1957, and there is also the church of Agios Maximos.

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