Церква святого Феодора Church of Saint Theodore

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The Church of Agioi Theodoroi is located near Klaftmonos Square in central Athens. It is an 11th-century monument. In particular, above the entrance to the church, on the west wall, there is an inscription stating that the church was restored by the Byzantine official Nikolaos Kalomalos in 1049 AD. The church is a simple two-sided cruciform form with an inscribed narthex and a dome. The bell tower on the south side is a later addition, and fragments of the church's marble iconostasis were incorporated into it. The interior frescoes date from the 20th century and were painted by Athanasios Kandris. The church suffered serious damage during the 1821 revolution, but was restored in 1840.
The temple is a type of transitional type of cruciform form inscribed by a dome. It has continuous longitudinal walls to the west of the dome and arches in the four corner bays. The variation is relatively rare and indicates archaism and/or the impossibility of finding marble columns for a second use. The walls were built in the typical brick facing technique and are decorated with ceramic decoration (kufi). Of particular interest in the interior is the iconostasis with its very good quality and rarity of the subject matter of its relief decorations.
Excavations carried out in 1967 by Pavlos Lazaridis around the church of Agia Theodora showed that it was built on the remains of older buildings, possibly a Roman villa and tombs of more ancient times.