Cathedral of St. Gregory of Nyssa (Trebizond)

St. Gregory of Nyssa Cathedral (around 1900)

View from the lake side (with a taller bell tower)

The St. Gregory of Nyssa Cathedral was a Greek Orthodox church in Trebizond , today's Trabzon, on the Turkish Black Sea coast . The church and its monastery existed from 1280 to 1930. Nearby was the Phrontisterion , a famous school.

The church and monastery were built between 1280 and 1297 by order of Eudokia Palaiologina , the wife of John II , Emperor of Trebizond , and dedicated to the holy bishop and doctor of the church Gregory of Nyssa (around 330–395). After the conversion of the Church of St. Philip, which had previously served as a bishop's church, into a mosque (Kudrettin Mosque) in 1665, St. Gregory became the cathedral of the city of Trebizond. In 1863, Metropolitan Konstantios von Trebizond built a representative new church with three apses , a bell tower and a 16-sided dome on the foundation walls of the medieval monastery complex . After the persecution of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire in 1914–1923 and the evacuation of the Pontic Greeks in 1923, the church was blown up in 1930. The city club was built on the site of the former church.

literature

• Anthony Bryer: Some Trapezuntine Monastic obits (1368-1563). In: Revue des études byzantines, Vol. 34, 1976, pp. 125-138, here p. 129.
• Anthony Bryer, David Winfield: The Byzantine monuments and topography of the Pontos . Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, 1985, ISBN 0-88402-122-X , pp. 226-228.

Web links

Commons : St. Gregory of Nyssa Cathedral (Trebizond)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Church of Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Trebizond (photographs)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ culture.gov.tr

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 ′ 34 "  N , 39 ° 43 ′ 50.1"  E