The cemeteries of the Greek-Orthodox population in Constantinople, monuments of the robustness of the Greek Orthodox population at the end of the Ottoman era, are today threatened with extinction. Their preservation is urgently needed, as they constitute quite important monuments of the collective memory of the minority.

The Byzantine music history demonstrates the development of ecclesiastical music into a complete musical system, with its own rules and style. After the Fall of Constantinople and the seize of the Byzantine Empire, ecclesiastical music survived as the music of the Orthodox Church; it kept its high art status in either a creative or static way, always following tradition, often including new pursuits and conceptions adapted to the needs of each period; all of these intrinsic characteristics...

After giving a brief description of the legal framework to which Greek communal estates belonged during the 19th century, this article sums the legal developments after the 1935 Law, which equated the “pious foundations of the (Christian and Jewish) communities” with Muslim vakıfs.

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The period 1839-1923 marks for the Ecumenical Patriarchate a series of radical changes, which derive from the contemporary Tanzimat reforms, the most important of which was the validation of the General Regulations in 1860, an act which established new balances within the Patriarchate, but also from the conflict between Venizelist and monarchist Greeks during the 20th century. The former conflict established, in the place of the ecumenism, which was consolidated as the prevailing ideology of...

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The Greek-orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople experienced after 1923 a series of fundamental mutations since it lost its political character, and was deprived, due to the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, of a great number of dioceses and the majority of its flock. After 1945 the ascension of Athinagoras to the patriarchal throne inaugurated a golden period for the Patriarchate which was terminated though because of the Septemvriana riots and the expulsion of Greek inhabitants...

After the Fall, many churches in Constantinople were modified into Muslim religious sites. During the follοwing centuries, quite a few churches burned down due to multiple fires. Later on, during the 19th century, at the time of Tanzimat, many orthodox churches were constructed.