Byzantine churches
There are numerous byzantine churches in the neighbourhood of plaka,in the narrow streets between the houses. Among the oldest is the little church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Theorias street, at the north foot of the Acropolis, which is dated to the second half of the eleventh century. At the junction of Erechtheos and Erotokritou streets stands the church of St John the Theologian, which is a twelfth-century building and survives in good condition. A short distance beyond, in prytaneiou street, is St Nichalas Rangavas, a typical Byzantine church of the eleventh-twelfth century, to which several additions were made in 1987-1978. Close to the monument of Lysikrates is the church of St Catherine, a dependency(metochi) of the homonymous monastery on Mount Sinai. It was built in the eleventh-twelfth century on the site of an Early Christian basilica, remnants of which can be seen in its courtyard. Another surviving Byzantine church, one of the earliest in Athens.