{"id":72,"date":"2020-04-13T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site143.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:01:18","slug":"chora-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/2020\/04\/13\/chora-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Chora Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_73\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73\" class=\"wp-image-73 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Chora-Church-02-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"Chora Church \" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Chora-Church-02-1024x630.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Chora-Church-02-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Chora-Church-02-768x472.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Chora-Church-02.jpg 1725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chora Church<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chora Church (Ayvansaray Mh., Kariye Cami Sk. No:26, Fatih\/\u0130stanbul) &#8212; the Turkish word Kariye is derived from the ancient Greek word Chora meaning outside of the city (land).\u00a0 It is known that there was a chapel outside of the city before the 5th century when the city walls were erected.\u00a0 The first Chora Church was rebuilt by Justinianus (527-565) in place of this chapel.\u00a0 In the era of Komnenoi, it served as the court chapel for important religious ceremonies, thanks to its nearness to the Palace of Blachernae.<\/p>\n<p>The church was destroyed during the Latin invasion (1204-1261) and repaired in the reign of Andronikos II (1282-1328) by the Treasury Minister of the palace, Theodore Metochites (1313). It was expanded towards north, an exonarthex was added to its western side and a chapel (Parecclesion) to its southern side, and it was decorated with mosaics and frescoes. Admission:\u00a0 30 TL per person.\u00a0 Hours:\u00a0 9:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm daily (except Wednesday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chora Church (Ayvansaray Mh., Kariye Cami Sk. No:26, Fatih\/\u0130stanbul) &#8212; the Turkish word Kariye is derived from the ancient Greek word Chora meaning outside of the city (land).\u00a0 It is known that there was a chapel outside of the city before the 5th century when the city walls were erected.\u00a0 The first Chora Church was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}