Tou Sotiros (Church of the Transfiguration)
The oldest church in Nafplion was a convent for Franciscan nuns during the 13th-century Frankish occupation; later it was refurbished as a mosque by the Turks. A distinctly Christian presence has prevailed since 1839, when Otto, the Bavarian king who served as monarch of a united Greece, presented the church to Greek Catholics and the so-called Philhellenes, the foreigners who fought alongside Greeks for independence from the Turks. The names of the Philhellenes, among them the British poet and adventurer Lord Byron, are inscribed on the columns.
The oldest church in Nafplion was a convent for Franciscan nuns during the 13th-century Frankish occupation; later it was refurbished as a mosque by the Turks. A distinctly Christian presence has prevailed since 1839, when Otto, the Bavarian king who served as monarch of a united Greece, presented the church to Greek Catholics and the so-called Philhellenes, the foreigners who fought alongside Greeks for independence from the Turks. The names of the Philhellenes, among them the British poet and adventurer Lord Byron, are inscribed on the columns.
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