Acheiropoietos. The great church of the Mother of God

“Achieropoiitos, the great early Christian basilica which survives today almost at its original level, stands in what was the center of Byzantine Thessaloniki, not far from the ancient Agora and the Byzantine Megalophoros. The monumental propylon on its south side of the temple faces the ancient city’s main thoroughfare -known as the Via Regia  in Roman times and the Leoforos in the Byzantine period, which lay very close to the church, below what is now Egnatia street.The main road very probably gave direct access to the  complex surrounding the basilica …”.

(from the book)