Byzantine Church of the Pantanassa In Monastiraki Square. The
architecture of the church continues in the tradition of
Byzantine basilicas. It is a long narrow building divided
internally into three aisles by two rows of columns. The church
was the katholikon (central place of worship) of a convent,
which housed a textile weaving center that supplied the
adjascent bazaar with cloth. Archaeological excavationsin 1885
and the construction for the electric railway 10 years later,
left the Pantanassa convent berift of its additional buildings
and the katholikon was demoted to an ordinary church named
Monastiraki (i.e. Little Monastery).