Imrahor Mosque

Needs restoration and to be opened to the visitors. I went to visit because it is important for me and my family history. Ilyas bey Imrahor is one of my ancestors.nI knocked the door, but didn't let me in. It is inhabited. It wasn't the best experience i could imagine.

Hey

The oldest Byzantine church still standing partially in Istanbul is the Ayios Ioannis Church within the Studion Monastery complex.nIt was converted into a mosque in the 15th century and took the name of İmrahor İlyas Bey. In the 1894 earthquake, most of it was destroyed and it still lives in semi-ruined condition.

Imrahor Mosque is the oldest surviving religious building in Istanbul built during the Eastern Roman period.It is the church of Aya Ioannes Prodomos (John the Baptist), part of the Studios Monastery, which was founded in 454 in today's Yedikule by Eastern Consul Studios. The monastery and church, which were destroyed during the Latin invasion, were repaired in 1293. Ottoman sultan II. It was converted into a mosque by İmrahor İlyas Bey during the Bayezid period. It served as one of the city's largest mosques during the Ottoman period, severely damaged by the fire of 1782 and the earthquake of 1894, and its roof collapsed in 1908. Following the 1894 earthquake, a group of Russian Byzantine scientists led by Fyodor Uspenskiy opened the Russian Archaeological Institute on the ground of the monastery, but after the Russian Revolution of 1917, this event came to an end.

My childhood passed here. We would stumble and cook and eat here ... but without knowing that he is hiding a great history.