One day we went to Piraeus. This is the port of Athens, and we wanted to see the sea. So we took the metro all the way to the end, and eventually we got to the busy town centre. But before we headed to the seashore, we stumbled upon this rather large and imposing church, the Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Greece is an Orthodox country. I do not know much about Eastern Orthodox Christianity, but it seems there's a very different flavour of religion here in Greece. The churches are smaller, darker, and they don't normally like visitors taking photos. This cathedral, however, was slightly different. It was large, and while the iconography within are indeed Byzantine in flavour, somehow they allowed photography, and so I took a few photos.
I learned that there's essentially different sets of saints, and perhaps it just is reflective of the history that I am not very much familiar with. I mean, Christianity after all did spread eastwards, and so there were individuals who are credited to spreading it, and these are the saints that are commonplace in this part of the world, but perhaps are not very well known in Western Europe. I was reading the Cyrillic labels on the saints' portraits, and later on, I even looked up and learned that the Cyrillic writing system has something to do with two saints of this tradition. Interesting stuff.
Eventually we slowly made our way out. It was a bright and sunny day outside after all, and while this cathedral was fantastic, we also wanted to spend time outside.
