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1895 what was left from the Byzantine church at the northeast corner of the present Kopça and Alti Pağa Sok had already been replaced by a tekke and, later, by modern buildings.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 |
1990. BSA 85: 81, fig.2. Link to article |