New Friday Mosque
The New Juma Mosque (
It is not known exactly when the church was built, however researchers consider that it was a
Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, who visited Trebizond in the early 19th century, reports that he saw remains of paintings of the Emperors of Trebizond from Alexios I to Alexios III inside, each with an inscription giving the title and name of the subjects; although by the time Gabriel Millet inspected the building, the inscriptions had disappeared, Millet confirmed traces of the paintings remained to the left of the entrance: "one person wearing the loros; another seems to hold a scepter; to the right, a third kneels, presenting an object, no doubt the church which he founded, to a saint seated and dressed like a martyrs, in Byzantine costume."[2]
The present building has no
References
- ^ John Lazaropoulos, Synopsis, ll. 1319-1321; translated by Jan Olof Rosenqvist, The Hagiographic Dossier of St Eugenios of Trebizond in Codex Athous Dionysiou 154 (Uppsala: University Press, 1996), p. 319
- ^ "Mais on distingue encore, à gauche de la porte, un personnage vêtu du loros; un autre semble tenir un sceptre; à droite, un troisième agenouillé, présente un objet, sans doute l'église, dont il est le fondateur, au saint assis et vêtu, comme tous les martyres, du costume byzantin." Millet, "Les monastères et les églises de Trébizonde", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 19 (1895), p. 428
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