Anciennes ¢glises Byzantines, Assyriennes et Arméniennes, converties en Mosquées en Turquie. Ancient Byzantine, Assyrian and Armenian, Churches converted into Mosques in Turkey.

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Zeyrek Mosque, Monastery of the Pantocrator  is a significant mosque in Istanbul, made of two former Eastern Orthodox churches and a chapel. It represents the most typical example of architecture of the Byzantine middle period in Constantinople and is, after Hagia Sophia, the second largest religious edifice built by the Byzantines still standing in Istanbul. Between 1118 and 1124 Byzantine Empress Irene of Hungary built a monastery on this site dedicated to Christ Pantokrator ("Christ Almighty"). The monastery consisted of a main church (which became the katholikon, or main church, of the monastery) also dedicated to Christ Pantocrator, a library and a hospital. Shortly after the Fall of Constantinople the building was converted into a mosque, and the monastery was converted for a while into a Medrese. The Ottomans named it after Molla Zeyrek, a scholar who was teaching there.  After the completion of the Medreses in the Fatih complex in 1471, the students abandoned Zeyrek, and the rooms of the monastery occupied by the Medrese vanished later. Today Zeyrek Mosque is after Hagia Sophia the second largest extant religious edifice built by the Byzantines in Istanbul. the south and the north church are both cross domed with polygonal apses having seven sides, and not five as was typical in the Byzantine architecture of the previous century. The apses have also triple lancet windows flanked by niches..Turkey, July 23, 2020.

Lieu : ISTANBUL, TURKEY

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