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Church of Prophet Elijah

Thessaloniki Municipality, XX

Church of Prophet Elijah

The Church of Prophet Elijah (Greek: Ναός Προφήτη Ηλία, romanized: Naós Profíti Ilía) is a 14th-century Byzantine-era Greek Orthodox church in the Ano Poli neighbourhood of the city of Thessaloniki, in the Central Macedonia region of northern Greece. Because of its outstanding Byzantine mosaics and

architecture, and its testimony to the importance of Thessaloniki in early and medieval Christianity, the church is one of fifteen structures inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki.

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