Churches in İstanbul

Edith Oyhon

Churches in Istanbul is a book about an interesting aspect of a city of a city of many colours and many worlds: Once 'the Rome of the East', Istanbul has housed many religions, and still remains an attraction for who wish to explore the memory of a distant past. The religious sites of the Chiristian peoples who worshipped in the city gives one the opportunity to do just that. Some of these churches are still active, some are in ruins, and some have been turned into mosques but they all carry the scent of histor within their stones, their domes and arches, their altars, their chapels...

Edith Oyhon and Bente Etingü have wandered in the streets of Istanbul searching for traces of time past. This book isa journey into those worlds that they have discoverd: Stories of how some of the churches dating back to Byzantine times were built, the Protestants and others...

Churches in Istanbul is a guide that will encourage the reader- wanderer to seek further in a city that hides much more!