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ISTANBUL'S HAGIA ELIA CHURCH TO REOPEN NEXT MONTH
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
July 24 2013
ISTANBUL- Hurriyet Daily News
The Hagia Elia Church needs renovation that would cost around 100,000
Turkish Liras, according to the deputy head of the PAE Fukaraperver
Association. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GUREL
The Hagia Elia Church needs renovation that would cost around 100,000
Turkish Liras, according to the deputy head of the PAE Fukaraperver
Association. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GUREL
Vercihan Ziflioglu Vercihan [email protected]
The Hagia Elia Church, which belongs to Turkey's White Russians,
is set to be reopened Aug. 2, with a ceremony led by Fener Greek
Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew.
A mass in the Hagia Elia Church located in Istanbul's Karaköy
neighborhood will be held for the first time since 1972 and will be
conducted by the Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew, who will also
bless the church beforehand.
The church, which belongs to the Russian émigrés who had fled from
the Bolshevik regime in 1921, is situated on the roof of a structure
where monks used to reside, a style of architecture rarely seen
in Anatolia.
While around 100,000 White Russians reside in Turkey, according to
the PAE Fukaraperver Association, they own three churches and a monk's
house, which is currently used as a commercial building in Istanbul.
The properties belong to the Russian Monastery at the Ayanaroz
Monastery Complex in Greece and the Fener Greek Patriarchate is in
charge of the churches. Kazmir Pamir, the deputy head of the White
Russians' PAE Fukaraperver Association, told the Hurriyet Daily News
that there had been improvements to the uncertain situation of the
church and the existence of Turkey's White Russians after an item
about the church was published in the Daily News. Appealing to all the
Russians living in Turkey, Pamir said the more Russians attended the
ceremony, the stronger a message it would send to stop the demolition
resolution on the church.
The Hagia Elia Church faces the risk of being demolished, if the
demolition resolution, which is being suspended currently, were to
be implemented. The demolition resolution was taken as part of the
privatization of the Istanbul Salıpazarı Port, also known as the
Galataport project, which is owned by Turkey's Maritime Organization.
Pamir said that the church needed renovation, which would cost 100,000
Turkish Liras.
'ASSYRIAN CHURCH PUT UP FOR SALE'
A Turkish man has put an Assyrian church in Siirt up for sale with a
1 million Turkish Liras price tag, the Armenian weekly Agos reported
yesterday.
Mehmet Emin Evin put up the Mor Yakup Church, which is located on
land he owns in the southeastern Turkish province of Siirt, for sale.
Emin's father had purchased the private land to raise livestock in
80's from the Arabic locals who lived in Siirt, adding that the church
passed into the ownership of the Evin family in time.
"Till 1915, the region has belonged to Christians but it passed into
Muslim's possession," Evin said, adding that his family were Chaldeans
but were forced to become Muslim in 1915.
July/24/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/istanbuls-hagia-elia-church-to-reopen-next-month.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51288&NewsCatID=339
From: Baghdasarian
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
July 24 2013
ISTANBUL- Hurriyet Daily News
The Hagia Elia Church needs renovation that would cost around 100,000
Turkish Liras, according to the deputy head of the PAE Fukaraperver
Association. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GUREL
The Hagia Elia Church needs renovation that would cost around 100,000
Turkish Liras, according to the deputy head of the PAE Fukaraperver
Association. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GUREL
Vercihan Ziflioglu Vercihan [email protected]
The Hagia Elia Church, which belongs to Turkey's White Russians,
is set to be reopened Aug. 2, with a ceremony led by Fener Greek
Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew.
A mass in the Hagia Elia Church located in Istanbul's Karaköy
neighborhood will be held for the first time since 1972 and will be
conducted by the Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew, who will also
bless the church beforehand.
The church, which belongs to the Russian émigrés who had fled from
the Bolshevik regime in 1921, is situated on the roof of a structure
where monks used to reside, a style of architecture rarely seen
in Anatolia.
While around 100,000 White Russians reside in Turkey, according to
the PAE Fukaraperver Association, they own three churches and a monk's
house, which is currently used as a commercial building in Istanbul.
The properties belong to the Russian Monastery at the Ayanaroz
Monastery Complex in Greece and the Fener Greek Patriarchate is in
charge of the churches. Kazmir Pamir, the deputy head of the White
Russians' PAE Fukaraperver Association, told the Hurriyet Daily News
that there had been improvements to the uncertain situation of the
church and the existence of Turkey's White Russians after an item
about the church was published in the Daily News. Appealing to all the
Russians living in Turkey, Pamir said the more Russians attended the
ceremony, the stronger a message it would send to stop the demolition
resolution on the church.
The Hagia Elia Church faces the risk of being demolished, if the
demolition resolution, which is being suspended currently, were to
be implemented. The demolition resolution was taken as part of the
privatization of the Istanbul Salıpazarı Port, also known as the
Galataport project, which is owned by Turkey's Maritime Organization.
Pamir said that the church needed renovation, which would cost 100,000
Turkish Liras.
'ASSYRIAN CHURCH PUT UP FOR SALE'
A Turkish man has put an Assyrian church in Siirt up for sale with a
1 million Turkish Liras price tag, the Armenian weekly Agos reported
yesterday.
Mehmet Emin Evin put up the Mor Yakup Church, which is located on
land he owns in the southeastern Turkish province of Siirt, for sale.
Emin's father had purchased the private land to raise livestock in
80's from the Arabic locals who lived in Siirt, adding that the church
passed into the ownership of the Evin family in time.
"Till 1915, the region has belonged to Christians but it passed into
Muslim's possession," Evin said, adding that his family were Chaldeans
but were forced to become Muslim in 1915.
July/24/2013
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/istanbuls-hagia-elia-church-to-reopen-next-month.aspx?pageID=238&nID=51288&NewsCatID=339
From: Baghdasarian