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The first church dedicated to Agios Titos had been built in Gortyn, the first capital town of Crete, before it was destroyed by an earthquake and the capital was transfered to its present location, in Heraklion Town by the Arabs in 828 A.D. In this new church, the skull of Agios Titos was transfered as well as a miracle-working icon of Virgin Mary and other relics from Gortyn.
During the Turkish occupation from Crete, the church of Agios Titos was turned into a mosque, named Vezir mosque. In the severe earthquake of 1856 that hit Crete, the temple was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as an Ottoman mosque by architect Athanasios Mousis. The minaret was destroyed in 1920, when the last Ottomans left the island of Crete, who had been integrated to the Greek State since 1909. Today, the cathedral works as an Orthodox church, after its renovation in 1925.
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