St. Paul's Anglican Church

Built in a neo-gothic style, St. Paul's Anglican Church is a listed building and a landmark in the cityscape of contemporary Athens. Consecrated on Palm Sunday of 1843 on what was then the city's outskirts, it is now part of the Athenian historical centre, situated between Syntagma Square and the Areopagus at the foot of the Acropolis where St. Paul first addressed the Athenians.

Its austere lines hide a musical jewel, a small but beautifully-pitched Hill's pipe organ, erected in 1901 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubillee, which is used every Sunday during services - but also for concerts throughout the year.

The church interior is, in fact, a living museum of the English-speaking community in Athens since the early 19th century, with memorials to people who played roles of significance in contemporary Greek history, including Frank Abney Hastings, Sir Richard Church (to whom, also, two of the stained-glass windows are dedicated) and the Second Earl Jellicoe, as well as the earliest known British monument in Athens: the headstone of a certain George Stoakes from Limehouse in London, who died on 6th August 1685.

Address

Filellinon 27, Athens, Greece

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Founded: 1843
Category: Religious sites in Greece