Posted June 25, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
Posted June 25, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
This site is all about Istanbul but the influences on and of Constantinople are widespread. This section looks at what happened to the Ecumenical Patriarchate after the 1204 sack of Constantinople when Christians desecrated the world’s greatest Christian city. The treasures went west, especially to Venice. The faith went to Nicaea, Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus. The influence of Byzantine architecture spread almost everywhere. The oldest building here is the Pantheon in Rome, whose tremendous dome inspired one of the hallmarks of Byzantine church architecture. The newest is the Church of the Wisdom of God, a strange Victorian attempt to recreate the greatness of Byzantium in a rural parish in Surrey.
1. Trakya, Thrace, European Turkey
2. Bithynia, south shore of the Sea of Marmara
3. Iznik/Nicaea
4. Aya Sofya Trabzon/Trebizond
5. Butrint, The Despotate of Epirus
6. Basilica San Marco, Venezia/Venedik
7. The Pantheon, Rome
8. The Church of the Wisdom of God, Lower Kingswood, Surrey
Posted June 24, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
Monks build things in out of the way places: mountains, islands, cliffs and suchlike. This means that not all of the Byzantine churches were in the centre. The islands in the Marmara were festooned with anchorites and their ramshackle structures. Sometimes these developed into monasteries with the resources to construct building that would last.
Chalcedon, the modern Kadıköy, was there before Byzantium. Major Christian events were the Council of Chalcedon and the Martyrdom of St Euphemia.
The European shore of the Sea of Marmara was the site of the Via Egnatia, the road for emperors to return in triumph from successful campaigns, at least in the early stages of the empire. The remains of Hebdemon, Rhegium and what may be Bathonea dot the path of these celebratory processions. Out towards the Anastasian walls on the edge of Istanbul province are the churches of Evcik and Silivri, along with the cliff monastery of İnceğiz.
1. Hebdomon/Bakırköy
2. Yeşilköy /Ayastefanos
3. Adalar/Princes’ Islands
4. The Monastery of Tuzla
5. The Monastery of Pendik
6. Küçükyalı Archaeological Site/Church of the Palace of Bryas/Monastery of Satyros
7. Merdivenköy
8. Church of St Euphemia, Kadıköy
9. Küçükçekmece/Rhegium/Rhegion
10. Bathonea
11. Yarımburgaz
12. Church of St Glykeria, Koç Adası, İncirli Adası, Tuzla
13. Church of St George, Evcik
14. Cave Monastery, İnceğiz
15. Church of Alexios Apokaukos, Silivri
Posted June 19, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
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