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Panagia Kamariotissa on Chalke
The Church of Panagia Kamariotissa is on Chalke (modern Heybeliada) of the Princes’ Islands in the Marmara Sea near Constantinople. It is located on the grounds of Turkish Naval Academy and closed to the public. It is a tetraconch building probably dating to the 11th-12th century.
Photo by David Talbot-Rice
Plan by David Mathews
References
“Observations on the Church of Panagia Kamariotissa on Heybeliada (Chalke), Istanbul” by Thomas F. Mathews and Cyril Mango
Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople: Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries by V. Marinis
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium edited by Alexander Kazhdan
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