Samatya Church

Samatya Church is a church in Historical Peninsula, Istanbul which is located on Hacı Hüseyin Cami Sokak. Samatya Church is situated nearby to the mosque Haci Huseyin Aga Camii, as well as near Ilyas bey camii.

Type: Church
Also known as: “Samatya Kilisesi”
Address: Hacı Hüseyin Cami Sokak, İstanbul, Fatih

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque and Church of Saint Menas of Samatya.

Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque

Mosque

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Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque 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. Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque is situated 800 metres north of Samatya Church.

Church of Saint Menas of Samatya

Church

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Saint Menas is a Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul. The edifice was built in 1833 near an early Christian Martyrion of the fourth or fifth century, possibly dedicated to the saints Carpus and Papylus, and on the site of an ancient church dedicated to Hagios Polykarpos. Church of Saint Menas of Samatya is situated 480 metres north of Samatya Church.

Samatya Aya Analipsiz Kilisesi

Church

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Samatya Aya Analipsiz Kilisesi is a church, which is situated 320 metres north of Samatya Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Samatya and Yenikapı.

Samatya

Quarter

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Samatya is a quarter of the Fatih district of Istanbul. It is located along the Marmara Sea, and borders to the west on the neighborhood of Yedikule.

Yenikapı

Quarter

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Yenikapı is a port and a quarter in Istanbul, Turkey, in the metropolitan district of Fatih on the European side of the Bosphorus, and along the southern shore of the city's historically central peninsula.