What is a significant mosque in Istanbul, made of two former Eastern Orthodox churches and a chapel,  Istanbul High School, or Zeyrek Mosque?
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Istanbul High School İstanbul High School, (Turkish: İstanbul Lisesi , German: Istanbuler Gymnasium ) also commonly known as İstanbul Erkek Lisesi, abbreviated İEL, is one of the oldest and internationally renowned high schools of Turkey. The school is considered elite among Turkish public high schools. Germany recognizes the school as a "Deutsche Auslandsschule" (German International school).
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Zeyrek Mosque Zeyrek Mosque (full name in Turkish: "Molla Zeyrek Camii" ) or Monastery of the Pantocrator (in Turkish: "Pantokrator Manastırı" ), 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.
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Istanbul (disambiguation) Istanbul is the most populated metropolitan city of Turkey.
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Church of St. Polyeuctus The Church of St. Polyeuctus (Greek: , "Hagios Polyeuktos") was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. Intended as an assertion of Juliana's own imperial lineage, it was a lavishly decorated building, and the largest church of the city before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements, and may have inaugurated the new architectural type of domed basilica, perfected in the later Hagia Sophia.
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Armenian cultural heritage in Turkey The eastern part of the current territory of the Republic of Turkey is part of the ancestral homeland of the Armenians. Along with the Armenian population, during and after the Armenian Genocide the Armenian cultural heritage was targeted for destruction by the Turkish government. Of the several thousand churches and monasteries (usually estimated from two to three thousand) in the Ottoman Empire in 1914, today only a few hundred are in still standing in some form; most of these are in danger of collapse. Those that continue to function are mainly in Istanbul.
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Bogdan Saray Boğdan Sarayi (Turkish for "Palace of Bogdania (Moldavia)") was an Eastern Orthodox church in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul. Erected in the Byzantine era, its original dedication is unknown. In the Ottoman era the small edifice, being dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra, was known as Agios Nikólaos tou Bogdansarághi (). and was part of the Istanbul residence of the Moldavian "hospodar"′s legation to the Ottoman Porte. The building - whose parts above ground have almost completely disappeared - is a minor example of Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.
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Vefa Vefa is a quarter in Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of the district of Fatih and managed as borough of Mollahüsrev, inside the walled city. It belonged to the district of Eminönü between 1928 and 2008. It lies roughly northwest of the eastern section of the Aqueduct of Valens, and is rich of monuments, both Byzantine, like the mosques of Kalenderhane and Vefa Kilise, and Ottoman, like the Süleymaniye Mosque. It is a picturesque quarter, home of the Vefa SK, one of the historic soccer clubs of Istanbul, and of the oldest Boza shop of the city still active.
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Kocatepe Mosque The Kocatepe Mosque (Turkish: "Kocatepe Cami" ) is the largest mosque in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was built between 1967 and 1987 in the Kocatepe quarter in Kızılay, and its size and prominent situation have made it a landmark that can be seen from almost anywhere in central Ankara.
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Pertevniyal High School Pertevniyal High School of Istanbul was founded in 1872 by the mother of Sultan Abdulaziz. It cost 3520 gold coins to build the school. The school was forced to relocate after the fire of 1911, which destroyed much of downtown Istanbul. A new building was not constructed until 1968. In 1992 it became an Anatolian High School.
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Kuleli Military High School Kuleli Military High School was the oldest military high school in Turkey, located in Çengelköy, Istanbul, on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus strait. It was founded on September 21, 1845, by Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I.
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Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque (Turkish: "Sancaktar Hayrettin Câmîi" ; also "Sancaktar Hayrettin Mescidi", where "Mescit" is the Turkish word for a small mosque, or "Sancaktar Mescidi") is part of a former Eastern Orthodox monastery converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. It is generally believed that the small building belonged to the Byzantine Monastery of Gastria (Greek: , "Monē tōn Gastríōn", meaning "Monastery of the Vases"). The edifice is a minor example of Palaiologan architecture in Constantinople, and is important for historical reasons.
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Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque (Turkish: "Koca Mustafa Paşa Camii" ; also named "Sünbül Efendi Camii") is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans, located in Istanbul, Turkey. The church, as the adjoining monastery, was dedicated to Saint Andrew of Crete, and was named Saint Andrew in Krisei or by-the-Judgment (Greek: , "Monē tοu Hagiοu Andreοu en tē Krisei"). Although heavily transformed during both the Byzantine and the Ottoman eras, it is one among the few churches in Istanbul still extant, whose foundation goes back to the sixth century.
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Yeşilköy Yeşilköy (] ; prior to 1926, San Stefano or "Santo Stefano" from the Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος pronounced "Ayos Stefanos", rendered in Turkish as "Ayastefanos", Bulgarian: Сан Стефано ) is a neighbourhood (Turkish: "mahalle" ) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the Marmara Sea about 11 km west of Istanbul's historic city centre. Before the rapid increase of Istanbul's population in the 1970s, Yeşilköy was merely a village and a sea resort.
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Evangelical School of Smyrna The Evangelical School (Greek: Ευαγγελική Σχολή ) was a Greek educational institution established in 1733 in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, now Izmir, Turkey. The school, initially an Orthodox Church-approved institution, attracted major figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment. During the late 19th-early 20th century it became the most important Greek school in the city, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library, which contained some 50,000 volumes and 180 manuscripts. The Evangelical School ceased its operation in 1922. It currently serves as a Turkish school.
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Ese Kapi Mosque Ese Kapi Mosque (Turkish: "Ese Kapı Mescidi" , where "mescit" is the Turkish word for a small mosque), also "Isa Kapi Mosque", meaning in English "Mosque of the Gate of Jesus", was an Ottoman mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The building was originally a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church of unknown dedication.
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Ali Pasha Mosque Ali Pasha Mosque is a Turkish mosque name. Notable mosque with the name include:
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Fatih Mosque, Tirilye The Fatih Mosque (Turkish: "Fatih Camii" ) is a mosque in Tirilye, which was converted from an 8th-century Byzantine church dedicated to Saint Theodore. The building was constructed between 720 and 730 AD, originally as the Church of Christ and Saint Stephen. After the Ottoman conquest of the town, it was converted to a mosque and named ""Fatih"", which means "conquest". The mosque was briefly rededicated as a church during the Greek occupation of the area in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922.
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Monastery of Saint Minas of Kes The Monastery of Saint Minas is a former Armenian monastery in eastern Turkey. It's a dome-less basilica with columns (very common for Armenian churches constructed in the 19th century). Located at the western edge of Gezköy village of Erzurum province in Turkey now. The village of Gezköy (formerly known as "Kes") is about 9 km west of the centre of the city of Erzurum.
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Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul The Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul, also known as Armenian Catholic Archdiocese of Constantinople, serves Armenian Catholics in Turkey and is under the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia. The seat is in Istanbul.
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Mukhtarov Mosque The Sunni Mosque or the Mukhtarov Mosque is a historic mosque on the left bank of the Terek River in Vladikavkaz. The mosque owes its name to the Azerbaijani millionaire Murtuza Mukhtarov who financed its construction in 1900-1908. The architect Józef Plośko was inspired by Al-Azhar and other mosques of Cairo. Plośko was also the architect of Mukhtarov Palace in Baku. The mosque serves the Ossetian Muslim minority.
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St. George's Austrian High School St. George's Austrian High School (Turkish: "Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi", German: "Österreichisches Sankt Georgs-Kolleg") is a private Austrian-Turkish high school located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of several secondary schools that were founded by European or American missions in Turkey during the 19th century, but were then secularized after the founding of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923.
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Beylikdüzü Beylikdüzü is a district in the European suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey, located north of the Sea of Marmara, south of Esenyurt, east of Büyükçekmece, and west of Avcılar.