Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio
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Contact Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio
| Address : | Piazza Bellini, 3, 90133 Palermo PA, Italy |
| Phone : | 📞 +9888 |
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| City : | Palermo |
| Description : | Domed Norman-era church with ornate baroque remodelling known for its landmark Byzantine mosaics. |
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Sabina Ramovic on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I am not a church expert, but what I liked about it is unique mixture of styles influenced by different cultures and religions.
Orthodox iconography, catholic interior, touch of Islamic architecture ....
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Marcus Hurley on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ We then went inside the Church of St Mary dell Ammiraglio which still uses Greek Orthodox rites and is a mix of baroque and Byzantine interior design. It predates the Norman Palace chapel by a few years and has yet more of the glorious golden mosaics.
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Veaceslav Gaju on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fantastic church, amazing pictures inside you most visit this, ticket not expensive only 4euro and you can find at the entry
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Ionut Sendroiu on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A church with an amazing story! Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio (Church of the Admiral) was built about 900 year ago by Muslim constructors for an Orthodox Christian admiral – George of Antioch. He paid mosaic crafters from Constantinople to come all the way to Palermo for decorating his church with stunning Byzantine mosaics. One of the mosaics depicts George of Antioch himself praying to Virgin Mary, while another one shows the Norman King Roger of Sicily receiving the power and crown directly from Jesus. After the death of the admiral, the church became Catholic and starting from XVI century went under several transformations and restorations. It even received a Baroque facade, in sharp contrast with the Norman Arab architecture of the rest of the building. Currently, some of the Byzantine mosaics, displaying messages in Greek language, are still visible near the Catholic frescoes painted in XVIII century, while the high altar is Baroque. Since George of Antioch was fluently speaking Arabic, there are also some Arabic inscriptions on two of the columns, so the mixture of styles and influences in this church is really mind-blowing.
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Yves Le Goff on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Arguably one of the most beautiful churches in the word. La Sainte Chapelle in Paris comes close. Like Monreale there is a lot of gold. The advantage is that it is in town, has extraordinary history (knights, crusades, arab Norman background, it was a post office, ETC)
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Volodymyr on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Visited this place today. We paid 2.5€ for entrance, but it was 2x2 room with literary nothing to see. It is fraud. The thing is they cover entrance with curtain, so you can not see for what you pay until you actually pay and come inside. It is on the right upstairs. Do not go there. It appeared it is not main church, we did not know that and no one told us.
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Theodoros Yiouras on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Gorgeous church. Incredible mosaics.
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Lucian Popescu on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Magnificent church originally built in 12th century by Normans in Byzantine/Islamic style. Half of it was painted over with baroque scenes, while the other is ancient and much more interesting (adorned with countless mosaics). Here and there you find columns inscribed with Arabic characters. Visitors entry is possible only for a few hours in a few days, so be sure you check its schedule!
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