Church of the Savior Monastery in the choir, which is now called the mosque Brown (Kariye), is located in a rather blank area near the gate Edirnekapy (Edirnekapi) and the ruins of the palace Vlahernks.
The Greek "chorus" (as the Turkish "brown"), meaning "suburb" or "suburban area, and demonstrates the venerable ancient monastery: it was founded in IV or V at the beginning of the century is far outside the city of Constantine. The monastery came into the city only after the construction of walls Feodossia. However, the current church building, built at the end of XI century.
The main treasure is a small church - it is not architecture, and mosaics and frescoes, which the temple was decorated between 1315 and 1321 years.
Customer paintings was a great logofet (First Minister) of Emperor Andronicus II Fedir Metohija. It was extraordinarily versatile man - a philosopher, a connoisseur of antiquities, writer, astronomer. Metohija was parishioner Choirs, and the end of life here took vows. Mosaics and frescoes - not only his contribution: his diligence in the convent was assembled one of the best libraries of Constantinople.
Inside repeatedly rebuilt church seems a labyrinth, but easy to navigate - entrance from the west. To get into the oil (actually a temple), crowned by a dome light on a high drum, you must pass two transverse vestibule (narteksy). From the south (right) hand side, adjacent to the temple - pareklesy. In the nave and narteksah - Mosaics, in pareklesii - Murals.
All this beauty more interesting, of course, seen not as a hit, and in the sequence, as conceived sage Metohija. In the museum box office (and a souvenir shop in town) you can buy the album, a detailed guide, which indicated where it posted a story.
The general principle is - the monastery was dedicated to Christ and the Virgin Mary, and this double dedication is reflected in the murals. Above the entrance - Virgin Vlahernskaya with the angels. In eksonartekse - Childhood Hristatsikl begins in the northern cell ( "Son of Joseph") and avoiding clockwise all eksonareteks, ibid and ends (Christ with Mary and Joseph at the Passover in Jerusalem "). On the sets of eksonarteksa - the miracles of Christ, and over the door leading to narteks-Christ Almighty.
In the dome narteks - medallions with the image of the Almighty, and Mary with Child, around - the ancestors of Christ. on the walls, and a set of sails - the life of the Virgin (view must also clockwise, starting from the north cell). Above the entrance to the nave - the Theodore Metohija in court attire and incredible turbans bowed before Christ with the model of the church in the hands, left and right - appostoly Peter and Paul. Before this door Theodore, according to his will, was buried in 1332. A little right, in a neighboring cell, - the famous Deesis: Mother of God before Christ (the figure of John the Baptist was not preserved).
Upon entering the nave, immediately OBERNAI: on the west wall above the entrance - Beauty of the Assumption of Our Lady. Pomiom merit marble mosaics lining the bottom of the wall and preserved in some places the details of stone carvings.
Center story painting - "The Descent into Hell" in the apse: Christ out of graves of Adam and Eve. Embarrassed the young man behind the backs of Eve - her firstborn Cain. Further to the west - "The Last Court, on the walls and vaults - the Old Testament stories and favorite saints. choice of subjects for painting side determined the appointment of premises: that threnody Chapel.
The church now operates as a museum, open to the public daily, except Wednesday, from 9:00 to 16:00.
Customer paintings was a great logofet (First Minister) of Emperor Andronicus II Fedir Metohija. It was extraordinarily versatile man - a philosopher, a connoisseur of antiquities, writer, astronomer. Metohija was parishioner Choirs, and the end of life here took vows. Mosaics and frescoes - not only his contribution: his diligence in the convent was assembled one of the best libraries of Constantinople.
Inside repeatedly rebuilt church seems a labyrinth, but easy to navigate - entrance from the west. To get into the oil (actually a temple), crowned by a dome light on a high drum, you must pass two transverse vestibule (narteksy). From the south (right) hand side, adjacent to the temple - pareklesy. In the nave and narteksah - Mosaics, in pareklesii - Murals.
All this beauty more interesting, of course, seen not as a hit, and in the sequence, as conceived sage Metohija. In the museum box office (and a souvenir shop in town) you can buy the album, a detailed guide, which indicated where it posted a story.
The general principle is - the monastery was dedicated to Christ and the Virgin Mary, and this double dedication is reflected in the murals. Above the entrance - Virgin Vlahernskaya with the angels. In eksonartekse - Childhood Hristatsikl begins in the northern cell ( "Son of Joseph") and avoiding clockwise all eksonareteks, ibid and ends (Christ with Mary and Joseph at the Passover in Jerusalem "). On the sets of eksonarteksa - the miracles of Christ, and over the door leading to narteks-Christ Almighty.
In the dome narteks - medallions with the image of the Almighty, and Mary with Child, around - the ancestors of Christ. on the walls, and a set of sails - the life of the Virgin (view must also clockwise, starting from the north cell). Above the entrance to the nave - the Theodore Metohija in court attire and incredible turbans bowed before Christ with the model of the church in the hands, left and right - appostoly Peter and Paul. Before this door Theodore, according to his will, was buried in 1332. A little right, in a neighboring cell, - the famous Deesis: Mother of God before Christ (the figure of John the Baptist was not preserved).
Upon entering the nave, immediately OBERNAI: on the west wall above the entrance - Beauty of the Assumption of Our Lady. Pomiom merit marble mosaics lining the bottom of the wall and preserved in some places the details of stone carvings.
Center story painting - "The Descent into Hell" in the apse: Christ out of graves of Adam and Eve. Embarrassed the young man behind the backs of Eve - her firstborn Cain. Further to the west - "The Last Court, on the walls and vaults - the Old Testament stories and favorite saints. choice of subjects for painting side determined the appointment of premises: that threnody Chapel.
The church now operates as a museum, open to the public daily, except Wednesday, from 9:00 to 16:00.
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