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Die Atik Mustafa Paşa Camii und weitere Kirchen zwischen Zeugma und Blachernen

    Arne Effenberger

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 67, pp. 1-22, 2018/07/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb67s1

doi: 10.1553/joeb67s1

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doi:10.1553/joeb67s1



doi:10.1553/joeb67s1

Abstract

The Atik Mustafa Paşa Camii is the only former Byzantine church in the Blachernai Quarter, which still exists. It owes its survival to its transformation into a mosque. Archaeological evidence suggests that it was erected in the second half of the 9th century. This building was surely not the Church of the Prophet Elijah in the Petrion, because this sanctuary was located much farther southeast between Zeugma and Cibalikapı. Topographical and historical arguments speak for the identification of the Atik Mustafa Paşa with the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra. In its place the church of the holy martyrs Priscus, Martinus and Nicholas, which was constructed by Justinian I, once stood. This church was burnt down during the Avar siege in 626 and renewed at an unknown time—perhaps by one of the first two Macedonian emperors. However, the written sources do not testify to the erection of a Church of St. Nicholas either for Basil I or Leon IV. The generally accepted but unfounded localization of the church within Leon Walls near the Gate of Blachernai must be rejected. The last known visitor to the Church of St. Nicholas in the Blachernai Quarter was the Russian pilgrim Stephen of Novgorod (1348/49).

Published Online: 2018/07/05 06:38:12

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