Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
Contributor(s)
Studer-Karlen, Manuela (editor)
Collection
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Language
EnglishAbstract
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies.
Keywords
Anastasis; Andronikos II Palaiologos; Byzantine Iconography; Byzantine Liturgy/Rite; Co-Habiting religious Sites; Constantinople; Copies of the mosaics; Demostehnes and Aristides; Dimitri Ismailovitch; Hagia Sophia; Ottoman Use; Parekklesion/Funeral Chapel; Proses; Theodor Metochites; TombDOI
10.1163/9789004679801ISBN
9789004679801, 9789004679795, 9789004679801Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://brill.com/Publication date and place
2023Classification
Architecture: religious buildings
History of art
Medieval style
Turkey
Byzantine Empire
Ottoman Empire