Church of Hosios David

The Church of Hosios David is a late 5th-century church in Thessaloniki, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. During Byzantine times, it functioned as the katholikon of the Latomos Monastery, and was adorned with rich mosaic and fresco decoration, which was renewed in the 12th–14th centuries. The church is dedicated to David the Dendrite. Many surviving elements of the Byzantine decoration are of high artistic quality, especially the 5th-century apse mosaic the Icon of Christ of Latomos. During the Ottoman era, the church was converted into a mosque, most likely in the 16th century, until it was reconsecrated as a Greek Orthodox church in 1921, thus receiving its present name. In 1988, the church was one of fifteen structures inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki.