Orthodox Churches
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This Greek Orthodox Church and the building houses the Greek Partriarchate on its yard overlooking the Golden Horn in Fener. Although both buildings have unimpressive exteriors it includes a golden patriarchal throne believed to be from the Byzantine era, three very rare mosaic icons, a pillar accepted as the one on which the Christ was tied and whipped and coffins of three saints.
Sadrazam Ali Paşa Caddesi, 35, Fener, Eyüp
Tel: (212) 531 96 70-76, Fax: (212) 534 90 37
Saint Mary of the Mongols Greek Church
A tall rose-red church standing on the hill of Haghia Yorgi in Fener. It
is the only Byzantine sanctuary in Istanbul that has been under continuous Greek
ownership since before the Turkish conquest. Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror's imperial
decree avoided converting this church to a mosque. A copy of this decree is
still in the church. The church gets its name from the illegitimate Byzantine
Princess Mary who married Mongol Khan. After her husband's assassination she
returned to Constantinople and had a church built (1282) and lived there as
a nun. The best mosaic of the church is the one describing Theodokos Pammakaristos.
Open every day from 9:00 to 16:00.
Tevkii Cafer Mektebi Sokak, Fener
Church of St Nicholas
This is a small pine-walled church just above the Golden Horn. It holds special
services every December 6th celebrating the saint's birthday (born in Patara
on Turkey's Mediterranean coast).
Unkapanı
Church of Aya Triada
This is a large, high domed, old Greek Orthodox house of worship in the
very center of the city. Sunday liturgy at 10:00, in Greek.
Meşelik Sokak, 11/1, Taksim
Tel: (212) 244 13 58
St Stephen of the Bulgars (in Fener)
It is an impressive and astonishing slate-gray Neo-Gothic church near Haghia
Yorgi in Fener. It was built in a waterside park on the Golden Horn in 1871
to celebrate the independence of Bulgaria. It is an all-iron church due to the
soft characteristic of the ground. Armenian Hovsep Aznavour of İstanbul was
responsible for the project. As a result of an international contest the prefabricate
sections of the church were produced in Vienna and carried to İstanbul by ships
via Danube and Black Sea, and reassembled here.
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