AGIOS NIKOLAOS O ORFANOS

The church of Saint Nikolaos Orfanos is a World Heritage monument protected by UNESCO. It is an old Byzantine Catholic monastery located in Thessaloniki, built in the early 14th century as a dependency of the Vlatadon Monastery. According to tradition preserved, an orphanage called "Saint Nicholas of Orphans” was housed in the same place . "However, the prevailing view is that the name “Orphan” comes from the name of the founder