Little Metropolis

'Panagia Who Grants Requests Quickly'[1]), is a Byzantine church located at the Mitropoleos Square, next to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens (the "Great Metropolis").

[1][3] Until recently, the common view among scholars, especially in Greece, ascribed it to the tenure of Michael Choniates as Metropolitan of Athens, at the turn of the 13th century.

[7] Kiilerich suggested an early Ottoman-era date for the church, perhaps connected with the takeover of the city's old cathedral—the Theotokos Atheniotissa in the Parthenon—by the Turks and its conversion into a mosque.

[8] Originally dedicated to the Panagia Gorgoepikoos after a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary housed there, it acquired the name "Little Metropolis" because it was located within the bounds of the residence of the Metropolitan of Athens.

[1] On 16 January 2023, the Little Metropolis was used as the location of the lying-in-state of Constantine II of Greece, the last King of the Hellenes, whom a "crowd of thousands" prostrated and mourned.