Seyh Murad Mescidi

Department Archive
Collection Byzantine Research Fund
Reference No. BRF/02/02/01/009
Level Item
Place Istanbul
Dates 1870-1880
Donor/Creator Berggren, Mr Guillaume
Scope and Content South side. This is a commercial photograph. The photograph was found along with 7 more by the same creator/artist inside a copy of 'A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Aldenham upon the subject of a Byzantine Evangelion' by Edwin Freshfield.
Further information By 1895 what was left from the Byzantine church at the northeast corner of the present Kopça and Alti Pağa Sok had already been replaced by a tekke and, later, by modern buildings. The monument must have been of cross-domed plan with narthex. Recessed brick masonry -alternate brick and stone courses- was used on the exterior walls. Samples of the building’s sculpture survived the 1917 fire. Recent evidence suggests that this was a Komnenian building which underwent extensive restoration during the Palaiologan period.
Reference BSA 85: 81, fig.2. Link to article