[1] Invariably, they neglect to mention that although the Acropolis’ great temple was used for pagan worship for 830 years, it was a Christian church for well over a thousand. Dedicated as a temple to ...

The Parthenon's function as a church, along with the Byzantines' reign ... Muslims conducted their worship beneath numerous Christian paintings and the large mosaic of the Virgin Mary.

Parthenon sculpture ... Conceived as the Temple of the Virgin Athena, it was for centuries the Christian Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, and it later became a mosque. By the end of the eighteenth ...

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at ... It has gone from temple, to church, to mosque, to munitions dump. What could be next? How about a scientific search for the secrets of its ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ... it was for centuries the Christian Cathedral of the Virgin Mary, and it later became a mosque.