Greek Orthodox Heritage

• Place · Istanbul Fener Fener on the Golden Horn, Istanbul's historic Greek quarter: the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the red-brick Phanar College and steep lanes of old houses.
• Place · Istanbul Büyükada Büyükada, the largest of Istanbul's Princes' Islands: a car-free island of wooden mansions, pine woods, a hilltop monastery and Trotsky's years in…
• Place · Istanbul Balat Beyond the colorful houses: a ship-shaped synagogue pulpit, an iron church from Vienna and the only Byzantine church never turned into a…
• Place · Istanbul Arnavutköy Arnavutköy on the European shore of the Bosphorus: wooden Ottoman mansions, fish restaurants by the water, the fierce current at Akıntıburnu and…
• Place · Istanbul Çengelköy Çengelköy on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus: old wooden mansions, a red waterside yalı, tea by the water facing the European…
• Place · Black Sea Sumela Monastery Sumela Monastery near Trabzon: a Greek Orthodox monastery built into a cliff above the Altındere valley, with a frescoed Rock Church and…
• Place · Black Sea Hagia Sophia of Trabzon The Hagia Sophia of Trabzon: the 13th-century church of the Empire of Trebizond above the Black Sea, with late Byzantine frescoes, carved…
• Place · Istanbul Burgazada Burgazada, the round island of Sait Faik: a single hill of pines, a waterfront of fish restaurants and wooden houses, the church…
• Place · Istanbul Phanar Greek Orthodox College The Phanar Greek Orthodox College in Fener: the Red Castle above the Golden Horn, a Greek school founded in 1454 whose red…
• Place · Konya Sille Sille near Konya: a valley village where Greek Christians lived beside their Turkish neighbors for 800 years, with the painted Aya Elena…