Theotokos Kosmosoteira
| Theotokos Kosmosoteira | |
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Θεοτόκος η Κοσμοσώτειρα | |
The katholikon (main church) of the monastery, seen from the southwest. The main dome, one of the four smaller domes, and two of the later buttresses can be seen. | |
Theotokos Kosmosoteira Location of the former monastery, former mosque, now church, in Greece | |
Theotokos Kosmosoteira | |
| 40°53′38″N 26°10′13″E / 40.8940°N 26.1704°E | |
| Location | Feres, Evros, Western Thrace |
| Country | Greece |
| Language | Greek |
| Denomination | Greek Orthodox |
| Previous denomination | Islam (1433–1920) |
| History | |
| Former name | Suleyman Pasha Mosque |
| Status | |
| Founder | Isaac Komnenos |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active (as a church) |
| Architectural type | Monastery |
| Style |
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| Completed | 1152 CE (as a monastery) |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Width | 17 m (56 ft) |
| Height | 17 m (56 ft) |
| Number of domes | 1 (main); 4 (smaller) |
| Administration | |
| Metropolis | Alexandroupolis |
The Theotokos Kosmosoteira (Greek: Θεοτόκος η Κοσμοσώτειρα, lit. 'Theotokos the World-Saviour') is a Greek Orthodox church in Feres, Evros, in the Western Thrace region of Greece. It was built as a monastery in c. 1152 by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The monastery became the core of the settlement of Feres, but is last attested in the mid-14th century. By the 15th-century, during the Ottoman era, the complex was a mosque; and it was reconsecrated as a church in 1940, administered by the Metropolis of Alexandroupolis.