Pammakaristos Church

The Pammakaristos Church, also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos, is one of the most famous Byzantine church buildings in , , and was the last pre-Ottoman building to house the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: former church, at present a mosque and museum in Istanbul
  • Also known as: “Fethiye Camii” and “Fethiye Mosque”
  • Address: Fethiye Kapısı Sokağı, İstanbul

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Golden Horn and Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque.

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The is the district of surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.

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is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. The small church, one among the 36 dedicated to Saint John the Baptist in Constantinople, was part of a monastery bearing the same name. is situated 130 metres south of Pammakaristos Church.

College
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or Phanar Roman Orthodox Lyceum, known in Greek as the Great School of the Nation and Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople, is the oldest surviving and most prestigious Greek Orthodox school in , Turkey. is situated 250 metres east of Pammakaristos Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fener and Unkapanı.

Quarter
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, also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the in the district of in , . The Turkish name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion", meaning lantern, streetlight or lamppost; the neighborhood was so called because of a column topped with a lantern which stood here in the Byzantine period and was used as a street light or lighthouse.

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is a quarter.

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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 12,024. It is in the European part of .

Pammakaristos Church

Latitude
41.02908° or 41° 1′ 45″ north
Longitude
28.9464° or 28° 56′ 47″ east
Open location code
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Western Frisian—“Pammakaristos Church” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θεοτόκος ἡ Παμμακάριστος”
  • Arabic: “Fethiye Camii”
  • Arabic: “جامع الفاتحية”
  • Arabic: “جامع فنحية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fəthiyə məscidi”
  • Bulgarian: “Богородица Памакаристос”
  • Bulgarian: “Памакаристос”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Богородица Памакаристос”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Богородица”
  • Catalan: “església de la Mare de Déu Benauradíssima”
  • Catalan: “Església de la Mare de Déu Benauradíssima”
  • Chinese: “帕玛卡里斯托斯教堂”
  • Chinese: “帕瑪卡里斯托斯教堂”
  • Czech: “Kostel Pammakaristos”
  • Dutch: “Pammakaristoskerk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامع الفاتحية”
  • Estonian: “Pammakaristose kirik”
  • French: “église Pammakaristos”
  • French: “Église Pammakaristos”
  • Georgian: “პამაკარისტოსის ეკლესია”
  • German: “Fethiye Camii”
  • German: “Pammakaristos-Kirche”
  • German: “Pammakaristós-Kirche”
  • Greek: “Μονή Παμμακαρίστου”
  • Greek: “Μονή Παμμακάριστου”
  • Greek: “Παμμακάριστος”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית מריה הקדושה פמקריסטוס”
  • Indonesian: “Gereja Pammakaristos”
  • Italian: “chiesa della Theotokos Pammacaristos”
  • Italian: “Chiesa della Theotokos Pammacaristos”
  • Italian: “Chiesa di Theotokos Pammacaristos”
  • Japanese: “テオトコス・パンマカリストス教会”
  • Japanese: “パンマカリストス教会”
  • Japanese: “生神女・パンマカリストス教会”
  • Macedonian: “Богородица Себлагословена”
  • Macedonian: “Манастир Богородица Памакаристос”
  • Polish: “Fethiye Camii”
  • Polish: “Kościół Pammakaristos”
  • Polish: “Teotokos Pammakaristos”
  • Portuguese: “Fethiye Camii”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja de Pamacaristo”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja de Pammakaristos”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja Pammakaristos”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja Theotokos Pammakaristos”
  • Portuguese: “Mesquita de Fethiye”
  • Portuguese: “Mesquita Fethiye”
  • Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Pammakaristos”
  • Portuguese: “Pammakaristos”
  • Russian: “Монастырь Богородицы Паммакаристы”
  • Russian: “Фетие-джами”
  • Russian: “Фетхие-джами”
  • Russian: “Фитие-джами”
  • Russian: “Церковь Богородицы Паммакаристы”
  • Serbian: “Manastir Bogorodica Pamakaristos”
  • Serbian: “Богородица Памакаристос”
  • Serbian: “Манастир Богородица Памакаристос”
  • Serbian: “Памакаристос”
  • Serbian: “Фетије џамија”
  • Serbian: “Фетије”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manastir Bogorodica Pamakaristos”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Device Pammakaristos”
  • Spanish: “Pammakaristos”
  • Swahili: “Msikiti wa Istanbul Fethi”
  • Turkish: “Fethiye Cami”
  • Turkish: “Fethiye Camii”
  • Turkish: “Fethiye Camisi”
  • Turkish: “Fethiye Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Pammakaristos Kilisesi”
  • Turkish: “Pammakaristos Manastırı”
  • Urdu: “پاماکاریستوس گرجا گھر”
  • Uzbek: “Fethiye masjidi”
  • Western Frisian: “Pammakaristos-tsjerke”

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Highlights include Fethiye Museum and Istanbul Imam Hatip High School.

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