Unveiling the Secrets of a Mysterious Greek Church in Mantineia #greece #peloponnese #church #dji

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The peculiar church has attracted the attention of visitors, architects and historians for many years now, with the international press calling it the “2nd most mysterious church in the world”, after Saint-Sulpice’s church in Paris.

Built right next to a rural road, opposite of the plain of Ancient Mantinea and the archaeological site of the city – where the famous Mantinea Battle took place between the Thebans and the Spartans – the church was founded in 1969 and inaugurated in 1978, by the then metropolitan bishop Kyros Theoklitos II Philippios.

Externally, the Agia Fotini church seeks to be a bridge of civilizations and differs from all other temples of its kind, combining an alloy of rhythms.
The diversity of its materials (including rock, marble, brick) combined with its overall architecture, create feelings of admiration and awe in passers-by.

Award-winning Spanish architect and town planner Alfonso Toribio, president of the Official College of Architects in Spain, stated that; Agia Fotini gives the impression of a living building. It makes you think that it moves, while trying to rotate around its axis.
"There is no right angle in the building. It breathes the Arcadian air, and its facade takes the direction of the wind that blows from the East.”

Situated in a 'pole' of touristic attraction, near the popular villages of Vytina and Levidi, as well as the Ancient Olympia, the Agia Fotini church surprises those who drive by who are unaware of the monumental church that converses nature and history.

What makes the church so different from every other church in Greece is that it does not classify in any particular school of architecture. In a strange way, it combines elements of ancient Greece with the Christian spirit, as inspired and implemented by its creator, architect, painter and hagiographer, Costas Papatheodorou.
“Agia Fotini is a building that divides people, and everyone sees it in their own way," Mr. Papatheodorou said.

The church’s roof also has an impressive and eclectic architecture, as it presents archaic rhythms with elements of Byzantine influences. “The church is built on levels, where one seems to step on top of the other,” Mr. Papatheodorou described.
“Movement plays an important role in the whole church. The architecture is also symbolic. The upper end of the temple looks like a gable, but sinks within, just like the poor huts of the plain of Mantinea in the 70s," he added.
"At the same time the temple bends high under the weight of many Saints.


"Some parts of the temple, such as the columns, have been sculpted in a way that creates the illusion that they were once made of wood and then replaced by marble, just as was the case with temples in antiquity.”
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