Religion Tourism

 3. Meryemana Armenian Church / Istanbul Beşiktaş

In Anatolia, many of the old churches that were collapsing from lack of care were excluded. The churches in Istanbul came to the forefront because the best congregations and communities were the most crowded. The list includes Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, Syriac, and Chaldean churches.

SVETI STEFAN BULGARIAN CHURCH

One of the first prefabricated structures

After the Bulgarian church was separated from the Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Bulgarians decided to build a church in Fener, some 150 meters north of the Patriarchate, in proportion to the Greek Cypriots. A project competition opened in 1890. Because of the rottenness of the ground, iron skeleton method was chosen to be lighter and durable by considering the bases of the piled pile structure. The Armenian architect Hovsep Aznavur from Istanbul won the project competition. The international competition held in 1892 for the implementation of the church project and the production of structural components was carried out by the Austrian company R. Ph. Waagner won. When the pieces were completed, the church was set up in the garden of the factory in Vienna before the company. Then the removed building elements moved to Istanbul with a boat over the Danube River and the Black Sea. It was rebuilt at the present place with a work of one and a half years, and worship was opened in 1898. As one of the first prefabricated structures, the world has an important place in the history of architecture.