Church of SS Peter and Paul

Church of SS Peter and Paul - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

SS Peter and Paul (, , ) is a Catholic church in Istanbul, important for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea.Mamboury (1953), p. 318 The current building is a nineteenth-century (1841 to 1843) reconstruction of the Fossati brothers.Mamboury (1953), p. 317 An adjacent former commercial facility, Saint Pierre Han, is (as of 2022) set to be renovated into a cultural center. Read more on Wikipedia

type: church
date from: 1843

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