Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1917 — Salonica Churches Survive War. [ARTICLE]

Salonica Churches Survive War.

The finest remains of the ancient city of Salonica are its churches. How they ever survived the tempests of the middle ages is a miracle. Nevertheless they did, 21 of them, says the National Geographic 'Magazine. The oldest of these churches, and after the arch Ads Galerius- the most ancient monument in the city, is St. George. During the long Turkish period it was the inosquff.of Hortaji Suleiman Effendi— St. George js unlike any other church in\ Salonica or Constantinople In that it* is of circular form. The dome of the church contains the finest mosaic ip tie city and one of the finest in the world.