Place of worship

Holy Metropolitan Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (Trimartiri)

📍 Chania, Crete🏗 1864-01-01

In Holy Metropolitan Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, also known as the Trimartiri Cathedral and the Cathedral of Chania, once stood at Athinagora Square in Chania’s old town. Before the cathedral, the site held a small church from the early 11th century—later demolished by the Venetians, who replaced it with a warehouse. When the Turks conquered Crete in 1695, that warehouse became a soap factory, which kept operating until 1850. Construction of the cathedral began in 1850 and was completed in 1860, after which it was inaugurated in 1861 by the Bishop of Kydonia. As a three-aisled basilica, it took its name—Trimartiri—from those aisles, and it also preserved an icon salvaged from the earlier church in its narthex. …
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