On Friday, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will participate in the patronal feast of the Romanian parish in Constantinople, celebrating Saint Paraskevi of Rome.
“At 9:00 AM, the Matins Service will begin, followed by the Divine Liturgy. His Holiness Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch, will be present at this moment of profound Christian experience,” announced Parish Priest Sergiu Vlad.
The Saint Paraskevi Church is located in Constantinople’s Hasköy district and was founded by Saint Constantine Brâncoveanu, the Prince of Wallachia.
The church was rebuilt from its foundations in 1692, with the donation of Saint Constantine Brâncoveanu, on the site of the old Byzantine church of the Prikidion district.
From the old church, prior to Brâncoveanu’s endowment, four imperial icons remain on the iconostasis of the holy place: Christ Pantocrator, the Virgin Mary with the Child, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Paraskevi the Martyr, the church’s patron.
Also located in the Hasköy district church are the relics of Saint Argyre, born in Bithynia’s Prusa around 1692.
Since 2004, the place of worship has served as the church of the Romanian Orthodox community in Turkey.
Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
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