The Church of Christ Pantocrator stands in Nesebar, the medieval Mesembria, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, and is part of the UNESCO Ancient City of Nesebar site. It dates to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Most sources say the late thirteenth or early fourteenth, while Robert Ousterhout places it in the mid-fourteenth century. It is a late Byzantine cross-in-square building of stone and brick laid in the opus mixtum technique.
Sources disagree on its size, though one gives about 52 feet (16 meters) long. An octagonal dome sits over the center of the nave, and a bell tower rises over the narthex. The church is best known for its east side, richly decorated with blind arches, floral patterns and turquoise ceramics.
Protected since 1927, it is now an art gallery for Bulgarian artists.
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