Panagia Chrysokephalos
The Panagia Chrysokephalos Church (Greek Παναγία Χρυσοκέφαλος, «Panagia the Golden-Headed»), serving as both the catholicon for the see of Trebizond, and a church for a monastery. It was built sometime in the 10th or 11th century. After Ottoman conquest of the city in 1461, the building became a mosque.
Saint Anna
Saint Anne of Trebizond (today Trabzon) is one of the oldest known surviving churches in Trabzon. It is built outside the city’s walls and is situated in the eastern part of the city, less than 100m south of Saint Basil. Saint Anne was one of the churches in the parish of Saint Basil and remained in Greek […]
Saint Eugenios
The church of Saint Evgenios (Yeni Camii) of Trebizond is a magnificent church which once represented the center of the city’s ecclesiastic, ethnic and cultural life. When the Turks seized Trebizond in 1461, Sultan Mehmet II re-named it Yeni Cuma Camii (New Friday Mosque) because it was here that the conqueror performed his first Friday prayers. Heath Lowry states that Saint […]
Elegmoi Monastery
The Elegmoi Monastery is located near the modern village of Kurşunlu on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. The existing structure, Aberkios Church, was its main church. The monastery was erected on a previous basilica from the 5th-6th centuries. Modern excavations revealed its existence on the north side of the present church. In […]
Kellibara Monastery
The Kellibara monastery is one of the most important foundations on Latmos (Latros), a monastic center in Caria, northeast of Miletos (Milet). The Latros monasteries are clustered on islands in the lake of Herakleia (Bafa Gölu) and on Mt. Latmos (modern Beşparmak).
Myrelaion Monastery
The Myrelaion monastery was founded on the premises of a palace which the future Emperor Romanos Lekapenos constructed in the place called Myrelaion (=»the place of myrrh») in Constantinople. The palace was built upon a huge 5th century rotunda with an external diameter of 41.8 metres. The rotunda was transformed into a cistern with the help of 70 columns and […]
Saint Paul Monastery
The Stylos Monastery (Arapavlı) lies between Bağırcık and the Kovanalan Plateau at a height of 740m. It was the most important among monasteries at Latmos (see also Kellibara). It was built in the 10th century during the lifetime of Saint Paul the Younger around the Stylos, that is the rock, on which he lived as […]
Monastery of Saint John of Pelekete
The Monastery of St. John is located ca 5 kilometers west of Trigleia on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It is also known as Pelekete which means “carved” probably to it being constructed upon a steep rock.
Andrew en te Krisei
The monastery of Saint Andrew (the Apostle) was allegedly founded at early 5th century by Arcadia, sister of Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450) near the Gate of Saturninus in Constantinople. By 792 it was converted into a nunnery and after the end of Iconoclasm it was rededicated to Saint Andrew of Crete who was killed […]
La Maison Carrée
La ciudad francesa de Nimes tiene su origen en la población de los Volsci Arecomici que, más tarde, fue conquistada por los romanos. En época de Augusto se transformó en una colonia de derecho latino donde se asentaron los soldados veteranos de Marco Antonio. La ciudad romana se embelleció con murallas, dotadas de torres circulares […]