Name: Early Christian Basilica of Lechaion ⛪ ruins near Corinth
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April 16, 2019

The basilica of Lechaion was dedicated to Leonides, the bishop of Athens, who was martyred, along with seven women, around the mid-3rd c. AD, by being cast into the nearby sea. It came to light through excavations funded by the Archaeological Society and conducted by the archaeologist D. I. Pallas during the 1950s and 1960s.

The basilica, the most important early byzantine monument in the Peloponnese, takes up an area of 11.000 sq. m. on the western branch of the ancient port of Lechaion, one of the two ports of Ancient and Byzantine Corinth. The other port was Kenchreai, on the Saronic gulf.

It is the longest basilica in mainland Greece (ca. 180 m.). It belongs to the three-aisled basilica type, with a five-aisled transept and a dome, a narthex, a double atrium, a tripartite baptistery and multiple annexes. Staircases on the west side led to the upper galleries.

The monument is believed to have been founded in the second half of the 5th c. AD, and was tiled and added to by the first third of the 6th c. In general, several parts of the church show signs of different phases, alterations and additions. The use of the basilica ceased possibly in the 7th c., due to its collapse caused by an earthquake. In later periods, new churches were built within the apse of the altar.

In the baptistery, it is believed that the western aisle was dedicated to the pre-baptismal ceremony, while the tetraconch space was a changing room. Τhe octagonal space containing two baptismal fonts, probably one for children and one for adults, is the area where the baptism itself took place (photisterion). In later years, not too far distant from the destruction of the basilica, the area of the photisterion was also converted into a church.

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January 15, 2025

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