Religious site

Hagia Triada Greek Orthodox Church

📍 Kadıköy, İstanbul, 34710

Aya Triada Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi, or Hagia Triada, is the Greek Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, and its very name points straight to the community that has long prayed here: the Rum Orthodox Christians of Istanbul. The church dates to 1880, placing it in the late Ottoman period, when the city’s Greek Orthodox minority still maintained major places of worship and social life in this part of town. “Rum” here carries a local historical meaning, referring to the Orthodox Greeks of the former Byzantine world, not just a language or nationality. The Turkish name, Aya Triada, and the German name, Dreifaltigkeitskirche, both preserve the same dedication to the Trinity. …
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