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Join us for a walking tour that explores the diverse religious and cultural backgrounds of Samatya. See Armenian churches, Greek Orthodox churches and mosques.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Istanbul, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Join us for a walking tour that explores the diverse religious and cultural backgrounds of Samatya. See Armenian churches, Greek Orthodox churches and mosques.
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Stop At: Samatya, Kocamustafapaşa, 34098 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey
Our half day tour starts with pick you up from hotel and heading to Samatya district. We’ll walk through and llisten the history of this ancient district by our guide. One of the districts of Istanbul known as the Old Walled City is Samatya, which stretches along the coastal road of Fatih district where you observe a colorful history. With its unique culture, craftsmen who build friendships based on trust, you wander the streets of the neighborhood that houses the Yedikule Bazaar on one side and the sea on the other, and the history of Istanbul starting from the Byzantine period and the times from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. On one hand, you can hear the sound of the call to prayer to the Mosque with the sound of prayer from the churches on the other, Samatya, is a neighborhood where you can see examples of the cosmopolitan structure and is known as one of the neighborhoods where the Armenian population is concentrated.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: St. George Armenian Church, Kocamustafapaşa, Marmara Cd. No:47, 34098 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey
Our first stop will be The Church of St George of Samatya. 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 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 Istanbul, and became for a period the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Hristos Analipsis Church, Yedikule, Yedikule Meydanı Sk. No:11, 34107 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey
Our tour continues with Hristos Analipsis Church which is a old greek church. We’ll listen its wonderful story by our guide.2
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Church of Saint Menas of Samatya, Bestekar Hakki Sk. No:1 Kocamustafapasa, Fatih, Istanbul 34098 Turkey
Our tour continues with another Greek Latin Church Church of Saint Menas of Samatya. According to the Fathers of the Church, in the fourth century Empress Helena, mother of Constantine I, authorized construction of a martyrion and a monastery dedicated to the Saints Karpos and Papylos at the foot of the steep southwestern face of the Xeropholos part of the seventh hill of Constantinople and at that time, before the construction of the Theodosian Wall, still outside the walls of the city
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: SÜMBÜL EFENDİ CAMİİ, Sümbül Efendi, Koca Mustafapaşa Cd. No:183, 34107 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey
Our last stop is Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque is a historical mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a former Eastern Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Andrew of Crete that was converted into a mosque between 1486 and 1491 AD by Koca Mustafa Pasha, who was an Ottoman statesman and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1511 to 1512.
After our tour we’ll drop you off your hotel back.
Duration: 30 minutes
