Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi

Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi is a church in Historical Peninsula, Istanbul. Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi is situated nearby to the quarter Samatya, as well as near Abdi Çelebi Mosque.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St. George of Samatya and Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque.

Church of St. George of Samatya

Church

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Saint George of Samatya or Surp Kevork is an Armenian church in Istanbul, Turkey. The edifice, built between 1866 and 1887, has been erected above the substructure of a Byzantine church and monastery built in the eleventh century. Church of St. George of Samatya is situated 110 metres north of Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi.

Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque

Mosque

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Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque 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. Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque is situated 240 metres northeast of Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi.

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 130 metres west of Aya Yorgi Rum Kilisesi.

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.