Church of St. George of Samatya

Saint George of Samatya or Surp Kevork (Turkish name: Sulu Manastır, meaning: "Water Monastery") 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. The complex, dedicated to St. Mary Peribleptos (ὴ ῆ ò ῆ ὲ, Monì tis Theotókou tis Perivléptou) was one of the most important Greek Orthodox monasteries in Constantinople. After the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453 it was ceded to the Armenian community in Constantinople, and became for a period the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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