{"id":69883,"date":"2013-04-23T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T10:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69883"},"modified":"2023-04-14T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:48:08","slug":"a-cast-iron-church-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/23\/a-cast-iron-church-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cast-Iron Church In Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by\u00a0<strong>Sean McLachlan<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">This church on the shoreline of\u00a0Istanbul\u00a0looks ornate yet pretty normal \u2013 that is until you go up and take a closer look. The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church isn&#8217;t made of stone but rather of cast iron. It&#8217;s a rare survival of a 19th-century craze in prefab cast-iron churches.Also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, its parts were cast in\u00a0Vienna\u00a0in 1871 and shipped down the Danube in a hundred barges to be assembled in Istanbul. This building marks an important time in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.\u00a0Bulgaria\u00a0and\u00a0Greece\u00a0were both ruled by theOttoman Empire. Bulgarian Christians were under the domain of the Greek Patriarch, but the Bulgarians complained that he favored Greeks over Bulgarians. So the Sultan granted the Bulgarians their own Exarch, giving them a religious independence that they have to this day.<\/span><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in Istanbul, head on over to this church, pull a coin out of your pocket and tap it against the wall. You&#8217;ll hear a loud\u00a0<em>ding ding ding<\/em>\u00a0that proves it&#8217;s really metal! Needless to say, iron buildings need love and care. Currently the building is undergoing restoration work so that it can amaze visitors and churchgoers for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool can boast two cast-iron churches, St. Michael&#8217;s and St. George&#8217;s, although they are only partially iron. For the full prefab effect, you need to go to Istanbul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Sean McLachlan This church on the shoreline of\u00a0Istanbul\u00a0looks ornate yet pretty normal \u2013 that is until you go up and take a closer look. The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church isn&#8217;t made of stone but rather of cast iron. It&#8217;s a rare survival of a 19th-century craze in prefab cast-iron churches.Also known as the Bulgarian Iron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,2939],"tags":[4584],"class_list":["post-69883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-cultureart","tag-iron-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}