Church of SS Peter and Paul, Istanbul

Church of SS Peter and Paul
Entrance to the courtyard of St. Peter's Church in Beyoğlu
Church of SS Peter and Paul is located in Istanbul Fatih
Church of SS Peter and Paul
Church of SS Peter and Paul
Location in Istanbul
LocationGalata, Istanbul
CountryTurkey
DenominationRoman Catholic
Architecture
Architect(s)Gaspare and Giuseppe Fossati
Groundbreaking1603-4
Completed1843

SS Peter and Paul (Turkish: Sen Pier ve Sen Paul Kilisesi, Italian: Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Galata, French: Eglise Saint Pierre Saint Paul) is a Catholic church in Istanbul, important for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea.[1] The current building is a nineteenth-century (1841 to 1843) reconstruction of the Fossati brothers.[2] An adjacent former commercial facility, Saint Pierre Han, is (as of 2022) set to be renovated into a cultural center.[3]

  1. ^ Mamboury (1953), p. 318
  2. ^ Mamboury (1953), p. 317
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference MaviBoncuk3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).