| Department |
Archive |
| Collection |
Byzantine Research Fund |
| Reference No. |
BRF/01/02/01/031 |
| Level |
Item |
| Place |
Istanbul
|
| Dates |
1906 |
| Donor/Creator |
Traquair, Mr Ramsay
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| Scope and Content |
Plan.
This is a printed version of an original drawing.It is entitled in ink: 'S Theodosia'. Ii is initialed (RT) and dated in the lower right-hand corner. |
| Further information |
The imposing church of Hagia Theodosia (Gul Camii) has puzzled earlier and modern scholarship regarding the identification both of original parts of the Byzantine building as well as of the church in the sources. The surviving cross-domed building rests on a vaulted podium of masonry uniform to that of the original upper sections of the church: alternate courses of recessed brick and stone decorated occasionally with vertical bricks which suggest a possible date between 1000 and 1150. The barrel-vaulted sanctuary with the flanking chapels at ground and gallery level also seem to be Byzantine. The rest of the building was either rebuilt or drastically restored by the Turks. |
| Reference |
Byzantine churches in Constantinople: their history and architecture. 179, fig.56.
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