Conversion of non-Christian places of worship into churches

Anarchist group Rouvikonas raised a banner in front of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis Hill, on Thursday, to express support for jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.

Visitors at the Foundation of the Hellenic World's cultural complex in southern Athens can as of Saturday take a virtual 3D tour of 5 BC Athens featuring the architectural landmarks of the city state at the peak of its political, cultural and military strength. Buildings including the Parthenon will be shown in their original form and color.

“History can not be stolen” and “Bring the marbles back” were written on two banners APOEL’s fans raised during the away game with Tottenham for the Champions League groups.

They also raised one more with a picture of the Acropolis.

The big banners, was a reminder by the Cypriot fans to the Britons of the stolen marbles of the Parthenon.

Violence broke out in and around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque Thursday, with Israeli police using tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to dispel stone-throwing demonstrators who had entered the compound, according to NBC News.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu criticized Israel's "intervention" at the al-Aqsa mosque, which has led to the escalation of tensions in Jerusalem. 

"The right to faith and worship is the basic right of all people," Kılıçdaroğlu said on his official Twitter account on July 23.

Israeli police barred men under 50 from entering Jerusalem's Old City for Friday Muslim prayers as tensions rose and protests erupted over new security measures at a highly sensitive holy site.

Three gunmen opened fire at police near Jerusalem's holiest site on July 14, wounding three Israelis, two of them critically, before the attackers were killed by security forces, Israeli police said.
   

This amazing photograph clearly shows the face of a bearded man with a leaf crown or headband.

Does this face resemble that of the old wise man of Greece? Zeus? Or Poseidon?

Restoration work on the western pediment of the Parthenon temple began Thursday as part of the ongoing project to restore and reconstruct monuments on the hill of the Acropolis.

The project, which was recently incorporated in the European Union-backed Partnership Agreement for 2014-20 known as ESPA, has a budget of 5 million euros.

Young women from Afghanistan visited the archaeological site on the Acropolis hill on Tuesday on the occasion of World Refuge Day in Athens. The trip was organized by Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou, who welcomed the refugees, all residents of the Schisto reception center, in front of the Parthenon. The young refugees were shown around the site by state archaeologists.