Bugünkü yapı Erken Bizans Dönemi bazilikasının yapı taşları ile inşa edilmiş Orta Bizans Dönemi dört sütunlu kapalı haç planlı yapısıdır. Beş bölümlü dış narteks 1261’deki Latin istilasından sonra Paleologos Hanedanı döneminde eklenmiştir. Pencere altlarındaki korkuluk levhaları ile sütunlar 6.yy.’dan kalmadır.İçerideki mozaikler 1979 yılından beri badana ile örtülü olduğundan görülememektedir. Fransız mimar Charles Texier 1830’larda binanın rölevesini çizmiştir.

Church-Mosque of Vefa
Vefa Kilise Camii
The mosque (right) and the exonarthex (left) viewed from the south.
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Year consecratedshortly after 1453
Location
LocationIstanbul, Turkey
Church-Mosque of Vefa is located in Istanbul Fatih
Church-Mosque of Vefa
Location in the Fatih district of Istanbul
Geographic coordinates41°0′59″N 28°57′37″E / 41.01639°N 28.96028°E / 41.01639; 28.96028
Architecture
Typechurch with cross-in-square plan
StyleMiddle Byzantine - Comnenian
Completed10th - 11th century
Specifications
Minaret(s)1
Materialsbrick, stone

Church-Mosque of Vefa (Turkish: Vefa Kilise Camii, meaning "the church mosque of Vefa", to distinguish it from the other kilise camiler of Istanbul: also known as Molla Gürani Camii after the name of his founder) is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans in Istanbul. The church was possibly dedicated to Hagios Theodoros (St. Theodore,[1][2] in Greek: Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ἑν τὰ Καρβουνάρια), but this dedication is far from certain.[3] The complex represents one of the most important examples of Comnenian and Palaiologan architecture of Constantinople.[4]

  1. ^ To which of the many saints bearing the name Theodore the church was dedicated is not clear. He could be either St. Theodore Tyro, (from Greek ὀ τήρων, mean. "the conscript") or St. Theodore Stratelates ("the general"). A joint dedication could also have been possible. Van Millingen (1912), p. 245
  2. ^ Janin (1953), p. 155
  3. ^ Mathews (1976), p. 386.
  4. ^ Van Millingen (1912), p. 246.
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