Ιερός Ναός Αγ. Κυριακής Χαριλάου Θεσσαλονίκης

History of Ι.Ν. Ag. Kyriaki Charilaou Thessaloniki

The Holy Temple of Holy Megalomartiros Kyriakis is a wooden-robed three-aisled basilica and is located in the area of ​​Charilaos, Thessaloniki at the intersection of the streets of Amfoterou and Ag. Sunday on the eastern side of the city at the boundaries of the Municipality of Thessaloniki with the Municipality of Pilea. Previously the area was called a "tramway" settlement because there was the tram terminus and many residents were employed there. In 1955, the first communal houses were built by the then government. On the day the draw was made to the beneficiaries of the residences, the Church celebrated the memory of the Holy Sunday Grandmaster. Thus it was decided that the temple that would be built to meet the needs of the faithful in the area should be dedicated to Saint Kiriaki. The first temple was erected in 1959. In 1965, however, it was named by the Metropolis Parish Church and appointed a priest. The extensions of the Temple, with the construction of the right and left aisle, a section of the narthex and the characteristic Stavros bell tower began in 1976. The inauguration took place on 11 October 1981 by the then Panayiotas Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Panteleimonas II. A year later, the narthex took its present form. Next to the church there are the Catechic and the Spiritual Centers recently fully renovated to meet the spiritual needs of the Parish Project, the offices, the temple of the Temple, and the Parish Church Museum, which was inaugurated by our seventh pastor, the Metropolitan of Panagiotas Mr. Anthimos on July 6, 2007, at the evening after the Feast of the Evening where he danced and in which Museum were placed the old icons of the iconostasis, which were painted in 1964 in Karyes Of Mount Athos from the hagiographic house of the hieromonk Seraphim Ophthalopoulou, after they were preserved. Today, the Temple adorns the new wood-carved iconostasis in place of the old marble and is the work of the woodcarver Mr. Eugenios Amanatides and in which were painted icons painted by the hand painter of the hagiographer Theodoros Vogdanos. It would be an omission if we do not mention that in the Temple there is now a permanent piece of the Holy Relic of Saint Sunday placed on a wood-carved pilgrim in a special showroom to worship every day of all the parishioners and the worshipful pilgrims. We had the great joy and the blessing to welcome the Holy Relics to our temple on July 3, 2004. The holy day has done many miracles and has saved our temple from many disasters. While many times both the priests and the parishioners are the witnesses of miraculous narratives that are being made in the multitude of the world by the embassies of the Holy Land. Finally, on July 7, 2011, in our Parish, the Holy Spirit Chapel operates in the Spiritual Center, which is celebrated in memory of Saint Luke the Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea of ​​the Doctor and Confessor of this modern and very pathetic Saint of our Church. In this chapel, there are daily Orthodox and Esperides, while Divine Liturgies are also occasionally performed in various circumstances.