The Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in Thessaloniki is a small Byzantine chapel from the fourteenth century. It is dated to about 1350 from a coin found in its dome. The lower walls are built of unhewn stone, and the upper part is brickwork.
Its layout is a tetraconch, a central room with four lobed arms, inscribed in a square. It is covered by a dome that stands on a relatively high tambour, a drum-shaped base, decorated with archivolts and half-columns.
After the earthquake that struck Thessaloniki in 1978, the chapel was the subject of archaeological investigations and restoration. Today it is part of the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki, which are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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