The Parthenon's Christian History

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Little known to many is the fact that the Parthenon was one of the Christian world's most important pilgrimage sites for over a millenium!
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I had no idea. Thanks for dropping some knowledge!

feeble_stirrings

I was in Athens recently and was thinking “how could this not have been turned into a church?”

It turns out it was 🙂

cozzwozzle

This is an amazing story. It is a shame how Protestant thought replaced Christian tales and folklore with whatever pagan nonsense was trending at the time.

theylivewesleep.

as an Orthodox Christian Turk, I find so upsetting the fact that the Ottomans did harm such an important pilgrimage site. and we have never taught this side of the history.

nhazallya

Wow, so much lost history...
Thank you for this well researched video! Protestants emphasized history so strangely, making it seem as if the reformation took place soon after the fall of Rome! In the future there seems to be much work to be done as Orthodox to reeducate the church on what gems we lost. Your efforts to do this are much appreciated

aster

Thank you my man for giving testimony to one of my favorite subjects! I read Anthony Kaldellis' book on Byzantine Athens and was so excited when I learned about this. The Emperor Basil II after his victory against the Bulgars, instead of going straight to Constantinople, went out of his way with his army to worship at the Parthenon, which shows just how important of a pilgrimage site it is. It also shone with light miraculously. It's just so ironic that the only reason people visit the Parthenon today is because of it being a Christian temple without even knowing that it ever was.

DemetriosLevi

This is extraordinary! Once more I have learned another amazing fact thanks to you guys! God bless you! ☦✝

johanvandersandt

I think part of the reason that the Christian history of the Parthenon was lost to most is due to a general disinterest towards the Byzantine Empire and Church History in general among mainstream academia. Growing up, I was never taught about the Byzantines, and I had no idea that the Orthodox Church even existed!

I'd actually been told that the Russians and Greeks were Catholic, and being raised as a Protestant, I had little interest in learning about either culture as a result. Only with my personal studies of Medieval history, (the Crusades being a major point of focus, ) did I learn about the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox faith, and now I'm a Catechumen and my baptism is right around the corner!

I think it's really sad that so much of the world's history is taught to us in such a distorted and selective manner these days, and further more, so many people in my generation seem to have a general lack of interest in history. I pray that America's youth heed the lessons of their ancestors, so that they can avoid repeating their mistakes.

drivingbritt

⚜️Theotokos Parthene, intercede for us with Christ our God ☦️

LeutherGreengager-ipuw

Learn something new every day, thank you!

petercoologeorgen

I am watching this video from a list of different christian predications and, arriving to this video today, "coincidentally", I am in the middle of watching the movie Jason and the Argonauts (1963) which I started yesterday evening. Glory to Christ!

AlexLGagnon

I love this history. Thank you Brother!

ryanpadgett

It makes sense, really: when you have a purpose-built (and quite beautiful) place of worship for a religion no longer practiced, why not repurpose it for something more useful? And just to be clear: by more useful i mean "church", not gun powder storage...

SomePeopleCallMeWulfman

I live in Nashville, TN, which is also called the "Athens of the South." Unfortunately, we also have a complete life size replica of the Parthenon with a huge statue of Athena right in front of it. I would love for it to be used as a church, but the government here, is much more interested in promoting the pagan aspects of it. It sits inside Centennial Park, which is overrun with homosexuality, drug users, and you name it. Nashville may be known as Music City USA, and the Athens of the South, and it has hundreds of "churches", but it's much more like Sodom and Gomorrah.

jamestrotter