Religious site

Surp Pirgiç Church

📍 Zeytinburnu, Istanbul

Surp Pırgiç Kilisesi, also called Surp Pirgiç Catholic Church and Surp Pırgiç Ermeni Kilisesi, carries an Armenian name in a city where churches, chapels, and congregations have long overlapped across languages and rites. As a Catholic church in Istanbul, it belongs to the older Christian landscape that survived fires, rebuilding, and the shifting fortunes of the old imperial capital. The name Surp Pırgiç means “Holy Savior,” and that dedication appears in several Armenian Christian institutions across the city, a reminder of how closely faith and community identity have been tied together here for centuries. …
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