Surp Asdvadzadzin Ermeni Kilisesi, Beşiktaş

Church· Beşiktaş, İstanbul

Surp Asdvadzadzin Ermeni Kilisesi, Beşiktaş

Surp Asdvadzadzin Ermeni Kilisesi, Beşiktaş is a church in Beşiktaş, İstanbul; The priest Krikor Taranağtzi first mentions, in 1623, a chapel in Beşiktaş with two priests.

Surp Asdvadzadzin Ermeni Kilisesi, Beşiktaş
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The priest Krikor Taranağtzi first mentions, in 1623, a chapel in Beşiktaş with two priests. Yeremya Çelebi also attests to a small church in Beşiktaş; his testimony covers the years 1661 and 1681-1684. According to the 18th-century historian Sarkis Tıbir Sarraf-Hovhannesyan, the church in Beşiktaş was demolished in 1759. From the history written in Ottoman Turkish by Şemdanizade Fındıklılı Süleyman Efendi, we learn that this demolished church had been built with the donations of Yakup Amira of Eğin. The church was torn down on the grounds that it had been enlarged without permission. In the 19th...

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