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18-664: Balat may refer to: Places [ edit ] Balat, Fatih , a neighborhood in the historic part of Istanbul, Turkey Balat, Didim , Turkey Balat, Bihar , India Balat, Meghalaya , India Balat, a settlement and archaeological site in Dakhla Oasis , Egypt Ba Lạt, a seaport in Vietnam at the Red River (Asia) People [ edit ] See Balat (surname) Other [ edit ] BALaT , an image database maintained by

36-541: A large Jewish population in the late 15th century, when Sultan Bayezid II offered citizenship to Jews and Muslims fleeing the Inquisition in Spain and Africa, and the 1492 Alhambra Decree . At its peak, Balat was home to 18 synagogues, though only three are still in use today: Ahrida Synagogue , Istipol Synagogue and Yanbol Synagogue . Opened in 1899 and designed by Gabriel Tedeşci, Or-Ahayim  [ tr ] Hospital

54-528: A whole, since travellers' accounts were largely based on visits to Karabaş, the poorest part of Balat. In 1810 Balat's Jews attacked the Janissary patrols in the neighbourhood, claiming that they were defending themselves against mistreatment by the local Janissary unit; those who were caught after the attack were executed. In 1985, Balat was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of

72-411: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Balat, Fatih The name Balat is probably derived from Greek palation (palace), from Latin palatium , after the nearby Palace of Blachernae . As in neighbouring Fener, Balat's back streets are lined with small stone two and three-storey terraced houses and a few grander mansions. In

90-622: Is the base for the Bulgarian Exarchate which broke away from the Orthodox Patriarchate in 1872. The church reopened after complete restoration in 2018. Originally founded in the 15th century to serve a congregation of Jews from Ochrid , the Ahrida Synagogue contains a beautiful wooden bema (pulpit) and is historically important because it was where Sabbetai Tsvi announced his breakaway beliefs in 1666. Originally built in

108-625: Is usually open on the St George's Day . The original church on the site was probably a chapel for one of the governors of Wallachia but by the 17th century it had apparently become a metochion, closely associated with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . It was here that the so-called Archimedes Palimpsest was discovered in the early 20th century when a scholar revealed that seven books written by

126-663: The Sinai Desert in Egypt . Ahrida Synagogue of Istanbul The Ahrida Synagogue ( Hebrew : קהל קדוש אכרידה ), or Ohrid Synagogue , is a Jewish congregation and synagogue , located on Ayvansaray Mahallesi, in Balat , a once a thriving Jewish quarter of the city, in Fatih , in the Istanbul Province of Turkey . Completed in c.  1430 , the synagogue is one of the oldest in

144-487: The 15th century for a congregation of Jews from Bulgaria, the Yanbol Synagogue has a particularly beautiful painted ceiling. The house of historian Dimitri Cantemir (1673-1723) sits to the right of the steps that form Merdivenli Mektep Sokak. Although it has been restored it has since been absorbed into the grounds of a cafe. The Church of Hagios Georgios Metochi is enclosed in a large compound off Vodina Caddesi and

162-712: The 2010s, Balat become one of the hottest parts of the city for tourism, including domestic tourism, and many of the houses have been turned into cafes, restaurants and accommodation for visitors. Many of the houses have been repainted in bright colours to give a distinctive feel to the neighbourhood. Balat is a stop on the T5 tramline connecting it to Cibali and the small bus terminal (for services to Anatolia ) in Alibeyköy. The Golden Horn ferries also stop here, connecting Balat to Üsküdar , Karaköy , Kasımpaşa , Fener , Ayvansaray , Hasköy , Sütlüce and Eyüp . Balat first became home to

180-725: The Golden Horn. On the seaward side a plaque memorialises the point in the walls when Sultan Mehmet II's troops poured over the walls on 23 April 1453 during the battle that culminated in the Conquest of Istanbul . There are several other rarely used Greek Orthodox churches in Balat including the Church of Hagios Ioannis Prodromos (St John the Baptist) which was closely linked to the St Catherine's Monastery in

198-547: The Greek mathematician Archimedes had been reused to create a prayer-book in the 13th century. Three of them are not known in any other copies. The large Armenian Church of Surp Hreşdagabed (Church of the Archangels) was built over an ayazma (sacred spring) in the 16th century but rebuilt in the 18th century. Its 19th-century school building now serves as a warehouse used by the city's rubbish collectors. In his travel book Dervish,

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216-601: The Historic Areas of Istanbul, and in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the subject of a number of controversial renovation and revitalisation projects. The Church of St. Stephen of the Bulgars (AKA The Iron Church ) stands on the shore of the Golden Horn where Fener runs into neighbouring Balat and is unique in that it was built entirely from prefabricated iron shipped down the Danube from Vienna and then reconstructed in Balat. It

234-715: The Romaniotes. The Romaniotes of Istanbul, as in many communities, including Thessaloniki became assimilated into the Sephardic culture and adopted the Sephardic liturgy as well as the language of the Sefardim, Judezmo . The synagogue building, one of the two ancient synagogues in Istanbul's Golden Horn , was renovated in 1992 by the Quincentennial Foundation, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Sephardic Jews' arrival in

252-750: The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Belgium See also [ edit ] Ba'alat Gebal , the goddess of the city of Byblos, Phoenicia in ancient times Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Balat . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Balat&oldid=1127611646 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

270-649: The city. It was built by Romaniotes (Greek Jews), dating from the 1430s, from the city of Ohrid (called 'Ahrid' in Greek) in what was then the Ottoman Empire and is now North Macedonia . Neve Shalom is said to have moved to Constantinople more than 550 years ago. Sephardi Jews arrived in the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula beginning in 1492, and soon were a larger group of Jews in population than

288-534: The journalist Tim Kelsey described the joint Muslim and Christian gathering that used to take place here on one day of the year when sheep and cockerels were sacrificed in hope of a miracle that would heal a disabled member of the community, an event that no longer occurs. The Ferruh Kethüda Mosque is a minor work of Mimar Sinan (1562) which contains examples of Tekfur Saray ı tiles around its mihrab. The Balat religious court used to convene in its grounds. The wrecked Sea Walls of Constantinople cut Balat off from

306-578: Was a large Greek Orthodox ( Rûm ) population. However, Balat today is overwhelmingly Muslim, with most minority populations having left the district or been forced to leave as a result of the Armenian genocide , Greek genocide , anti-Greek riots and expulsions throughout the 20th century. From the 17th century onwards European travellers recorded Balat as being particularly poor and unhygienic, although Marie-Christine Bornes-Varol has argued that their reports may not have been accurate reflections of Balat as

324-504: Was originally set up to serve Balat's Jewish population, but now serves the general public. Balat was also home to a wide variety of ethnicities, cultures and religions. The famous Bulgarian Iron Church is located in the district, and there was traditionally a sizeable Armenian population too. Its proximity to St. George's Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in neighbouring Fener also meant that there

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