Hagios Andreas en te Krisei
| Department | Archive |
|---|---|
| Collection | Byzantine Research Fund |
| Reference No. | BRF/01/02/01/027 |
| Level | Item |
| Place |
Istanbul |
| Dates | 1906/7? |
| Scope and Content | Plan (restored). This is a printed copy of an original drawing. It is enitiled in pencil: 'S. Andrew in Kriseis Constantinople - Restored Plan'. It is annotated in ink. |
| Further information | The church of Hagios Andreas en te Krisei (St Andrew at the Pace of Judgment) seems to appear in the sources as early as the end of the 8th c. However, none of the original buildings of the church complex survives to date. In fact, the transformation of the church into a mosque in 1489 erased any trace of the original masonry. On the basis of simple observations, it must have been an ambulatory church with colonnades north and south of a domed square nave formed by four great central arches. It must be assigned to the Palaiologan period and more specifically to a rebuilding by Theodora Raoulina (1284). Worth noting is the sculpture, mainly the capitals, of the building. |
| Reference |
Byzantine churches in Constantinople: their history and architecture. 118, fig.36. |