Αγίασμα Αγίου Θεράποντος

Walking down a street under the Hagia Sophia, suddenly a sweet smell of incense! I shivered and searched with my eyes to find where it was coming from ... I realized that something was happening in an insignificant door ... I went down the few stairs and entered the City of Rome ... the Agiasma seemed to me hidden from prying eyes, so central and so modest. No sign, no place report, nowhere ...nI took his picture with me and hugged it for years, until today I bet myself to find it in the alleys of Google Earth ...nAgiasma of Agios Therapontos, next to Gulhane parki

It is open every Monday and Friday morning with the presence of a priest. Visits Christians and Muslims. There is no inscription that guides the visitor. It's just a small, gray door.nFor this holy water there are reports from 800 AD.nSaint Therapon's holy water is in the building that appears between the two towers of the Zaragoza Wall. It is in a two-storey building and the holy water is at the bottom. In Byzantine times, the holy water was at a point beyond the walls (which at that time did not exist), at the same time it remained for a long time in the Ottoman times. In 1820, the sanctuary's bed was shifted out of the walls as it was in the Zaragoza area. In 1901, Patriarch Ioakeim failed so that the upper part of the building would continue to belong to his Turkish owner, while in the basement was built an entire church and two rooms on the mezzanine floor.