Aya Yorgi Greek Orthodox Church
Changes After Construction:
- The church lost part of its front section during road widening in the late 1920s.
- The plan layout of the structure was altered because of its location by the roadside; a small section at the corner of the women’s gallery has survived to the present day.
Prominent Features:
- The church belongs to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Istanbul.
- The structure is also referred to in the sources as “Ayios Yeoryios / Hagios Georgios.”
- The church was built on the site of a Byzantine monastery; the oldest inscription in the structure is dated 1830.
- The structure is a masonry church; its detached/longitudinal mass is read under a tile-covered roof.
- The interior is covered with a wooden vaulted ceiling; the ceiling rests on wooden columns and the floor is of marble.
- The iconostasis is wooden, and its relief-decorated arrangement is defined together with the icons.
- In the iconographic arrangement of the church are depictions of Mary and the Child Jesus, Jesus, Aya Yorgi, and the Prophet Elijah, as well as representations of the Gospel writers on the pulpit.
- The bell tower is adjacent to the church.
- There is a fountain dated 1908 at the entrance of the church.
