Hagia Anna (Trabzon)

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Hagia Anna in Trabzon

The Church of Hagia Anna ( Turkish Küçük Ayvası Kilise , Greek Ἁγία Άννα ) is a small Byzantine church in Trabzon (Byzantine Trapezunt). It is the oldest surviving church in the city, although the date the church was founded is unknown. According to an inscription above the south portal, the roughly joined outer wall was restored or rebuilt in 884/85 under the Byzantine emperor Basil I.

The three-aisled basilica is located in a lively business district about 200 meters east of the central fortress city. There is an inscription on a plate above the south door stating that the church was built during the common reign of Basil I , Leo VI. and Alexander was restored in the years 884/5. The inside of the prayer room measures 6.6 meters in width and 7.4 meters in length. To the east there are three horseshoe-shaped apses protruding from the gable wall, the middle one is slightly larger and is lit by three windows, the side apses by one each. A re-used pair of columns with Ionic capitals carry girders in both directions. The middle barrel vault is about 2.5 times as high as the pillars, the narrower side vaults are only slightly lower. Access is via a staircase from the south side.

St. Anne's Church is the only one to have a crypt , and it is believed to have served as a burial chapel from the 13th century. It was not later rededicated into a mosque. After a restoration in the 1970s or 1980s, the building is in fair condition; the inside has been cleared.

literature

  • Anthony Bryer, David Winfield: The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos. Washington 1985, ISBN 0-884-0212-2-X , pp. 218-219.

Web links

Commons : Hagia Anna (Trabzon)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selina Ballance: The Byzantine Churches of Trebizond. In: Anatolian Studies , 10, 1960, pp. 141–175, here pp. 154 f.
  2. ^ Thomas Alexander Sinclair: Eastern Turkey. An Architectural and Archaeological Survey. Vol. II. The Pindar Press, London 1989, p. 74
  3. ↑ Volker Eid : East Turkey. Peoples and cultures between Taurus and Ararat . DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1455-8 , p. 134
  4. ↑ Vera and Hellmut Hell: Turkey. Northern Turkey, Eastern Turkey, Southeast Turkey. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a., 3rd ed. 1988, p. 59

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′ 21.7 ″  N , 39 ° 43 ′ 23.9 ″  E