Pylos, Pylos Fortress, the Church of the Transﬁguration of the Savior

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Title:	Pylos, Pylos Fortress, the Church of the Transﬁguration of the Savior
Start date:	1575
End date:	1599
Historical Period:	Post-Byzantine
Description:	Built as a mosque in the last decades of the 16th c. AD, during the Second Venetian Rule it was converted in church. Later, in the 1715, the Turks reconquered the fortress and the building turned back to be a mosque. In the mid-19th c. the building was reconverted again into a church
Place:	Church of the Metamorphosis Sotiros - Ι.Ν. Μεταμόρφωσης Σωτήρος, Greece
Languages:	No linguistic content; Not applicable
Medium:	brick (clay material) stone (worked rock)
Project:	BYZART Project
Fond:	UNIBO Collection
Physical type:	churches (buildings) mosques (buildings)
Material and technique:	masonry construction (technique or process)
Data provider:	University of Bologna
License:	All rights reserved
Appears in Collections:	BYZART