St. George's Church in Samatya

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View from the north of the entrance to the modern church

Saint George of Samatya ( Surp Kevork ) ( Armenian Սամաթիոյ Սուրբ Գէորգ Եկեղեցի , Turkish Sulu Manastiri , "water monastery") is an Armenian Apostolic Church in Istanbul consecrated to Saint George .

description

The structure, built between 1866 and 1887, was built on the remains of a Byzantine monastery church that was built in the 11th century under Romanos III. Argyros had been built. The building complex is dedicated to the Theotokos Peribleptos ( Greek Μονὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου τῆς Περιβλὲπτου , pr. Mone tes Theotókou tes Peribléptou ) and one of the most important Greek Orthodox monasteries in Constantinople . After the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453, the monastery was handed over to the Armenian community of Constantinople and was temporarily the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople .

The client was Bedros Nemtze . The church is now located in Istanbul's Fatih district in the neighborhood of Kocamustafapaşa (historically Samatya ) on Marmara Caddesi 79 . It is located within the city ​​walls near the Sea of ​​Marmara .

literature

  • Ernest Mamboury : The Tourists' Istanbul . Çituri Biraderler Basimevi, Istanbul 1953.
  • Raymond Janin: La Géographie ecclésiastique de l'Empire byzantin. 1: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. Volume 3: Les églises et les monastères. Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines, Paris 1953, pp. 218-222.
  • Semavi Eyice : Istanbul. Petite guide a travers les monuments byzantins et turcs. Istanbul Matbaası, Istanbul, 1955, No. 141.
  • Wolfgang Müller-Wiener : Pictorial dictionary on the topography of Istanbul. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3 , pp. 200-201.

Web links

Commons : St. George's Church of Samatya  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janin (1953), p. 227.
  2. ↑ Müller-Wiener (1977) p. 200.
  3. ^ Silvia Ronchey, Tommaso Braccini: Il romanzo di Costantinopoli. Guida letteraria alla Roma d'Oriente . Einaudi, Torino 2010, ISBN 978-88-06-18921-1 . , P. 443

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 28 ° 55 ′ 58.9 ″  E