Balikli Meryem Ana Rum Manastiri
In Meryem Ana Rum Manastiri, the Monastery of the Mother of God at the Spring, the most enduring memory is of what was once here: a Byzantine sanctuary linked to a healing spring that gave the place its name. The present church, built in 1835, carries the same dedication as the shrine established between the end of the fifth century and the beginning of the sixth, when, according to Byzantine sources, Emperor Justinian ordered a grand church to rise near a holy well noted for its “hagiasma.” The spring drew pilgrims for its reputed healing properties, securing the site a long-standing role in Greek Orthodoxy for nearly fifteen hundred years. The complex stood outside the walled city, a few hundred meters from the Gate of Silivri, set within a green landscape bordered by Orthodox and Armenian cemeteries. …
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