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	Bulgarian St Stephen Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bulgarian St Stephen Church (Sveti Stefan Kilisesi in Turkish) in Istanbul, also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Istanbul, famous for being made of cast iron.
		The Bulgarians of the Ottoman Empire used to pray at the churches of the Phanar Orthodox Patriarchy, but due to nationalistic movements, Bulgarians were allowed a national church in the 19th century.
		First, a small wooden church was erected on the shore of the Golden Horn between Balat and Fener squares (near Eyup district), where the current church is located, but later this was developed into a larger building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bulgarian_St_Stephen_Church (340 words)

	Saint Stephen of Hungary
		Stephen, István in Hungarian, was born at Esztergom in 975.
		St Stephen was indeed the founder and architect of the independent realm of Hungary and organising defensive fortifications around the country's borders.
		St Stephen merits the highest veneration for his accomplishments in both secular and religious matters, and, most especially, for having been an exemplar of justice, mercy, charity, and peace in a cruel age.
	hungary.topcities.com /ststephen1.html (3995 words)

	Parish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stephen's Church building on Blackford St. was purchased with a down payment of $1,000 on May 24, 1915 from Wm.
		They traveled to St. Stephen from as far away as New York City, locations in the State of Ohio, and from Pennsylvania, as well, to join their Orthodox brothers and sisters in Indianapolis for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.
		Stephen Church purchased land on Indianapolis' west side at the corner of 16th Street and Medford Avenue.
	members.iquest.net /~rtvmagic/parish.htm (442 words)

	St. Michael's Orthodox Church -Monthly Commemorations
		St. Nicetas of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod.
		Commemoration of the martyrdom by the Poles of Abbot Anthony with 40 monks and 1000 laymen of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery, and Abbot Daniel with 30 monks and 200 laymen of St. Nicholas' Monastery (1609).
		Andronicus, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and St. Sabbas, abbots of Moscow.
	www.yourinter.net /zak/saints.html (6527 words)

	Castles and Fortifications in Northern Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elanor convinced John that his Bulgarian bodyguards were plotting to kill him, so he had all 24 of them brought to the tower, and threw them out the window, one-by-one.
		On the west St. Hillarion is clearly seen, and the site of Kantara Castle is visible to the northeast, while the Mediterranean coast dominates the view to the north.
		It is not nearly as large as St. Hilarion, but it is in a more picturesque location, with a spectacular view of the north coast and Famagusta Bay on the east coast.
	archaeology.asu.edu /Jordan/castles.html (1682 words)

	History of the Russian Orthodox Church oh 3 Saints in Garfield, New Jersey
		The church was founded in 1898 by Russian immigrants, mostly from the region of the Carpathian Mountains in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		The history of the Three Saints Church is shaped by the events of the parish as well as by the issues of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the United States.
		Before their church was built, some members of the parish would travel to NYC to attend services at the St. Nicholas Church, at that time a home chapel.
	www.3saints.com /history1.html (6420 words)

	Great-Martyr Stephen Dechani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Stephen came of age, his parents arranged that he marry the daughter of the Bulgarian King Smilatz, and the young couple were given the land of Zeta, where they settled until such a time as Stephen would be called to succeed his father to the throne.
		She convinced Milutin that Stephen wanted to seize the throne prematurely, and the deceived Milutin ordered that his son be captured, that he be blinded to ensure that he never again entertain such treachery, and that he be sent as a prisoner to Constantinople.
		In 1331, St. Stephen was taken prisoner to a fortress in the town of Zvecha and cruelly murdered (by some accounts he was hung, according to another he was drowned).
	www.roca.org /OA/128/128e.htm (1267 words)

	OCA - Parish Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Church is located at the northeast corner of Bronson and Virginia Avenues in Hollywood.
		It was decided unanimously that they must build a Bulgarian church where they may gather at holidays and the feasts, and also to have a place to go in moments of grief when one needs to pray to God and to find solace among friends.
		In 1968 the church purchased the property on a corner of Bronson and Virginia Aves for the building of a church.
	www.oca.org /DIRlisting.asp?SID=9&KEY=OCA-BU-LAXSKO (906 words)

	St Stephen of the Bulgars Church, Istanbul
		Though it looks like stone, it's made out of iron: the Bulgarian Orthodox Church of St. Stephen of the Bulgars, on the Golden Horn in Balat, was cast in Vienna, floated down the Danube on 100 barges, and bolted together here in Istanbul in 1871.
		This was the cathderal church of the Bulgarian Exarch, a title and position invented by the Ottoman sultan when, in the later 1800s, the sultan's Bulgarian subjects demanded to be emancipated from the authority of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch.
		The church is still used for services by Istanbul's small, dwindling community of Bulgarian orthodox residents.
	www.turkeytravelplanner.com /WhereToGo/Istanbul/Sights/GoldenHorn/BulgarChurch.html (191 words)

	CONFERENCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This church was to remain the burial place of the emperors from Constantine himself until the eleventh century.
		When the city fell to the Turks in 1453, the church was demolished to make room for the tomb of Mehmet II the Conqueror.
		Constantine V convoked a church council in 754 which condemned the worship of images, after which many treasures were broken, burned, or painted over.
	www.worldses.org /conferences/2006/istanbul/teleinfo/location.htm (3498 words)

	St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Main Page
		The OCA is an autocephalous (self-headed) Orthodox church in communion with the bulk of Orthodox Christianity.
		Parishes of the Bulgarian Diocese of the OCA
		This split was precipitated by the difficulties of administering the far-flung missionary activity of the Russian church after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Communist government interference in the Church.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7175/stnich-page.html (1114 words)

	Welcome to Nessebur summer beach resort, Bulgaria (Несебър, Nesebar Nessebar Nesebur)
		The cross-dome churches are represented by St. John the Baptist Church (10th-11th centuries), Sts.
		A historical museum with branches - the archaeological exposition in St. John the Baptist Church and the mural paintings in St. Stephen Church.
		Stephen Church (New Bishopric) - a church built in the 12th C. though other sources date it back to the end of the 10th C. It has been preserved almost in whole in its initial form.
	www.bulgariancoast.com /cititown/detail.asp?rid=16 (1111 words)

	bulmodexa2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There were few nationally conscious Bulgarians who did not now believe that the next step should be towards a fully separate Bulgarian church, an idea which was reinforced in 1850 when the protestants, thanks to strong diplomatic support from Great Britain, had been granted their own millet.
		Despite the overwhelming popularity of their cause amongst the Bulgarian laity there were small but powerful elements in the Bulgarian clergy who were not prepared to split the Orthodox church; they included the abbot of the Rila monastery and two of the four Bulgarian bishops recently nominated by the patriarchate.
		Those amongst the Bulgarians who had advocated internal action, the Bulgarian 'fara da se', had hoped that the bold move such as that Ilarion had made would cut the Gordian knot, force St Petersburg to come off the fence, and free the Bulgarian church from its ties to the patriarchate.
	www.ucc.ie /staff/jprodr/macedonia/bulmodexa2.html (1270 words)

	Istanbul - Psychology Central
		The seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, remains in Istanbul.
		In some quarters, like for example in Kuzguncuk, an Armenian church is near a synagog, and on the other side of the road a Greek-orthodox church is found beside a mosque.
		The city is traditionally seat of the Eucuemenical Patriarch, to some orthodox churches and seat of an Armenian archbishop as well as the archbishop of the Turkish-orthodox municipality.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Istanbul (3742 words)

	Istanbul - Balkans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This empire quickly became distinctly Greek in culture and the centre of Greek Orthodox Christianity and was adorned with many impressive churches including the once world's largest cathedra: Hagia Sophia.
		The seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church is located in Istanbul until our days.
		Aya sofia was converted to a Mosque as were several other churches in the city.
	www.balkans.eu.com /wiki/index.php?title=Istanbul (1579 words)

	Nesebar and Sunny Beach, Info and History
		During the Bulgarian National Revival the town is revived anew.
		The construction and plastic decorative peculiarities of Nesebar churches dating back to 10 - 14 c., sets them apart in a separate group, characteristic with the picturesque design of facades.
		Cross-dome churches are represented by "St. Ivan Krustitel" church (10 - 11 c.), "St. Arhangeli Mihail I Gavrail" (13 c.), "Pantokrator" (14 c.) and "St. Ivan Neosveteni" (14 c.).
	www.nesebar.com /en/en_nesebar.htm (330 words)

	St. Stefan
		Stephen Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Tsarigrad Foundation was established for the purpose of preserving the historical, cultural, and church legacy by supporting and maintaining the St. Stephen Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Istanbul, Turkey, as well as assisting in the preservation and popularization of its spiritual concepts.
		He was elected President of the Bulgarian Orthodox Churches in Turkey in 2002.
		She serves as an operative manager and PR of the St. Stephen Bulgarian Orthodox Church in Tsarigrad Foundation.
	www.svstefan.com /?language=en&p=objective (860 words)

	Orthodox Church of St Nicholas of Japan - Johannesburg,Gauteng
		We are a parish of the Orthodox Church, under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, which traces its history back to AD 65, when St Mark the Evangelist brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to africa, and planted the Church in Alexandria, Egypt.
		Society of St Nicholas of Japan - an Orthodox mission society in Southern Africa that encourages Orthodox Christians to participate in the global mission of the Church.
		The Society of St Nicholas was reponsible for starting the Church of St Nicholas of Japan, and this page gives some of the early history of the parish as well as of the society.
	netministries.org /see/churches/ch00758 (837 words)

	Excerpts from the Orthodox Church by Bishop Kallistos Ware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Orthodoxy still thinks of the Church as a Eucharistic society, whose outward organization, however necessary, is secondary to its inner, sacramental life; and Orthodoxy still emphasizes the cardinal importance of the local community in the structure of the Church.
		An Orthodox church today is filled with them: dividing the sanctuary from the body of the building there is a solid screen, the iconostasis, entirely covered with icons, while other icons are placed in special shrines around the church; and perhaps the walls are covered with icons in fresco or mosaic.
		The 869-70 Council requested the Emperor to resolve the status of the Bulgarian Church, and not surprisingly he decided that it should be assigned to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/history_timothy_ware_1.htm (20566 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BULGARIAN MONUMENTS IN TURKEY Bulgaria will be able to take care of monuments in Turkey linked with its culture and history under a protocol for cooperation in the preservation of the cultural heritage.
		It was signed by the Bulgarian and Turkish ministers of culture during Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's official visit to Turkey on November 4-6.
		The church SS Constantine and Helena in Edirne, the convent in Istanbul, St Stephen's Church, also known as the Iron Church, are all in a state of disrepair.
	www.b-info.com /places/Bulgaria/news/98-11/nov17e.bta (295 words)

	PODOBEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It became important in the Church to realize that the language of the new land had to be incorporated in the life of the Church as well.
		Since Church services were beginning to be served in the language of the new land, the music of the services had to undergo this transformation as well.
		Their contributions could not be neglected and the language associated with the composition had to be adapted to the new generations of Orthodox.
	stephenhowanetz.tripod.com (471 words)

	Byzantium
		This church occupied a special place among churches in that it had been intended by Constantine the Great as a burial place of his dynasty, and a mausoleum had been built outside the apse of the church.
		The church of this type was essentially either a square or a cross surmounted by a central dome.
		The story of the dedication of the church is that when the building was ready to be consecrated, the Emperor walked in procession from the gate of the palace across the Augustaeum to the outer doors of the church.
	www.yasou.org /byzantium/byz.htm (10267 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The almost half a century struggle for church independence was an important part of the Bulgarian national movement of the 19th century for liberating the Bulgarian lands from Turkish domination.
		The issuing of this firman was one of the great victories of the Bulgarian National Revival and of the Bulgarian liberation movement, said Toncho Zhechev, a Bulgarian National Revival historian and specialist in folk psychology.
		The 125th anniversary of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was marked this weekend in Istanbul by a liturgy at the chapel of the building of the Exarchate and at the Bulgaria St. Stephen Church.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/bta/1995/95-03-01.bta (1276 words)

	St. Pachomius Library
		He was among the first seven deacons of the church.
		The elders of the Jewish temple, having failed to win their argument with him, accused him of blasphemy because he asserted that the temple would be destroyed and the law of Moses had ended with the coming of Christ.
		Stephen answered their charges eloquently and was stoned to death c.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xsteven-dn.html (236 words)

	Istanbul - Bulgarian St Stephen Church, Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bulgarian St Stephen Church in Istanbul is also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church.
		The Bulgarian minority of the Ottoman Empire used to pray at the churches of the Fener Orthodox Patriarchy.
		First, a small wooden church was built on the shore of the Golden Horn between Balat and Fener squares (near Eyup district) where the current church is located, but later this was developed into a larger building.
	www.odyssei.com /travel-tips/2103.html (251 words)

	St. Stephen Of The Bulgars , Orthodox, Churches , History And Attractions , Istanbul Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Directly in the middle of the Golden Horn road, this 19th century structure is built entirely of iron.
		It was prefabricated in Vienna and sent via the Danube to be erected here to celebrate the independence of the Bulgarian Church.
		Church Of St. John Of Studios In Istanbul
	www.istanbul-hotels-discount.com /guide?r=3.10.149 (97 words)

	Indianapolis Parochial School Survey Cover Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The vision for an Indianapolis Orthodox Christian School is one of partnership among the Indianapolis Orthodox Churches.
		Constantine and Elena Orthodox Church St. George Orthodox Church
		Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church St. Stephen Bulgarian Orthodox Church
	www.stgindy.org /Features/Survey9803cover.html (298 words)

	Miscellaneous Tips, Istanbul, Turkey
		Some facts and history The neo-Gothic Bulgarian Church of St Stefan is one of the most remarkable structures in Istanbul.
		The church was prefabricated in Vienna, shipped down the Danube and erected on the western shore of the Golden Horn in 1871 by the then-flourishing Bulgarian Orthodox community in Istanbul.
		Despite the dwindling numbers of the Bulgarian community, the church has been recently restored and repainted and is set in neatly tended gardens.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Middle_East/Turkey/Istanbul_Ili/Istanbul-1837624/Things_To_Do-Istanbul-MISC-R-3.html (1512 words)

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