Liberation Mosque - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Liberation Mosque - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Liberation Mosque (), formerly the St. Mary's Cathedral or Holy Mother of God Church (), is located in the Tepebaşı district of Şahinbey, Gaziantep in Turkey. Initially built as an Armenian Apostolic church, it was converted into a stable after the Armenian genocide; and later, into a jail. Sarkis Balyan—the Ottoman-Armenian architect serving Sultan Abdul Hamid II—designed the church. The building was constructed between 1892 and 1893, undertaken by the stonemason Sarkis Taşçıyan.Thomas A. Sinclair: Eastern Turkey. An Architectural and Archaeological Survey. volume 4. The Pindar Press, London 1990, p. 111 The church was part of a complex which also contained a school and the administrative buildings of the dioceses of the kaza of Antep.Osman Koker, "Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago", Istanbul 2005, p267. Read more on Wikipedia
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