It is interesting to see a church in a predominantly Muslim country. Cheers to Turkey! Absolutely beautiful place!

Get aquainted with the history, music, prays and spirit of Byzantium. It's important to understand, that muslim ottomans after qonquered Byzantium gave Orthodox Christians the freedom to keep their faith. Istanbul shows capability to have dialogue between religions and secular world, as well.

My first time here and it is a medium size church with lots of golden ornaments. The office buildings surrounding are also beautiful.

Worth visiting, more so if you are christian or orthodox. Beautiful work, in wonderful shape. It is an active temple with members using it, so visitors are expected to be quiet and inobtrusive.

Huge gold alterpiece and many relics in a building that we actually walked past without even realising we had arrived. Not a lot to see but wothwhile stopping by if you are exploring the neighbourhood

‪Greek Othodox Patriarchate‬ Occupying 8,000 square meters on the banks of the Bosphorus, which adds to the wonderful site and appearances picturesque feature. Founded in 2004 to embrace the museum's collection of artifacts and displays it to be accessible to modern and contemporary art lovers....More

Only a relatively small church set one street away from a major road. Spiritual home to Orthodox Christians, Should visit when in Istanbul

To know that so little has remained from the once vibrant greek orthodox community which was once in the 100s of thousands and now only couple of thousand. It reminds you that Turkish state (and Ottoman empire before it) was way more tolerant than what...More

I expected to see a big patriarchate but the main building; the old one was kind of small. As any other Orthodox Patriarchate the design inside is so luxurious still it feels nice to be there especially crossing people praying there, There is small garden...More

it's really interesting that in the city of Islam how those church exist and they are still alive from Muslim kings in turkey.