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SUMMARY
The church of Myrelaion was founded in 920 by Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos; it was intended as a burial church and katholikon of the monastery with the same name. It follows the architectural type of complex cross-in-square church; its rich decoration does not survive. After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans it was converted into a mosque, named Bodrum Camii. It suffered many damages from fires, while the repair work, as well as a restoration program that began in 1964-1965, caused a lot of alterations in the monument. |
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