Church of Saints Clement and Panteleimon

Saint Panteleimon
Свети Пантелејмон
The exterior of the monastery
Basic information
Location	Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
Affiliation	Macedonian Orthodox Church (Eastern Orthodox Church)
District	Plaošnik
Country	Republic of Macedonia
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Clement of Ohrid
Architectural type	Middle-Byzantine
Architectural style	Byzantine style
Capacity	3,000

The Church of Saints Clement and Panteleimon (Macedonian: Црква Свети Климент и Пантелеjмон, Crkva Sveti Kliment i Pantelejmon; Greek: Άγιος Παντελεήμων) is a Byzantine church situated on Plaošnik in Ohrid, Macedonia. It is attributed to Saint Clement of Ohrid, a disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius. Archaeologists have come to believe that the church is located on the site where the first students of the Glagolitic alphabet (used to translate the Bible into Old Church Slavonic) were taught.

The original church is believed to have been built when Saint Clement arrived in Ohrid at the request of Boris I of Bulgaria and restored an old church. Sources say that Saint Clement was not satisfied with the size of the church and therefore built a new one over it and assigned Saint Panteleimon as its patron saint.

Saint Clement used his newly created church as a liturgical building and a place for teaching his disciples his revision of the Glagolitic alphabet, known as the Cyrillic script. Clement personally built a crypt inside the church in which he was buried after his death in 916; his tomb still exists today.

In the 15th century, Ottoman Turks converted the church into a mosque but during the beginning of the 16th century allowed ruined monasteries and churches to be restored, therefore, so was Saint Clement's church. The church was again ruined during the end of the 16th century or the beginning of the 17th century and yet another mosque, called Imaret Mosque (Turkish: İmaret Camii), was erected by the Ottomans. The Imaret Mosque was torn down in 2000 with the reason given that it was constructed over the remains of a church in the Plaošnik area and the former mosque was added to the damaged religious buildings list compiled by the Islamic Religious Community of Macedonia.