Megara.
Megara.
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266. Megara, Aghios Athanasios (Μέγαρα, Άγιος Αθανάσιος)
266. Megara, Christ at Kambos (Μέγαρα, Χριστός στον Κάμπο)
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Megara.
In the region of Megara remnants of at least one Early Chris-
tian basilica have been detected on the site of the Holy Four
Martyrs church that was a shrine dedicated to local martyrs,
while it is believed that one more was located on the site of the
Holy Six Martyrs church. The church of Christ at Kambos, dated
to the 12th c. is a four-columned, cross-in-square church with
destroyed narthex and Athenian-type dome, distinctive in the
wide use of cut porous stones. Saint George at Orkos, which
collapsed in an earthquake in 1999, was also a four-columned,
cross-in-square church with porous elements and wall-painting
fragments indicating a late 12th-early 13th c. date. The same
architectural type is followed in Aghios Athanasios near Christ,
with an unusual dibelon formation at the entrance from the
narthex to the nave, and in Saint Nicholas at Akres in Elaio-
nas, Megara, which possibly dates from the same period. At
the Kardatas site there survives the small, cross-vaulted church
of Aghios Demetrios, with buttressing arches in the interior and
wall-paintings dating from the 13th c., according to one view.
