Saint Demetrios Orthodox Church, Karagümrük Sarmaşık
Sarmaşık Aya Dimitri Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi Vakfı
A Rum community foundation (vakıf) in Sarmaşık.
- Official name
- Sarmaşık Aya Dimitri Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi Vakfı
- District
- Sarmaşık
- Type
- Church
- Status
- Active
- Founded
- 1834
- Location
- Map (OpenStreetMap)
The church appears in lists of the churches of Constantinople from 1583 and 1593. The earlier church was destroyed by fire, and the present building was constructed in 1834, as an inscription in the narthex records. Its iron bell tower carries a bell cast in Istanbul in 1905. The church contains the holy spring of St Sebastian; on his feast day, 18 December 2025, the Ecumenical Patriarch presided at the liturgy.
The information on this page is documented by the sources listed at the end.
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Image credit: Sadrettin, Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sources
- Rum Vakıfları Derneği — Vakıflarımız
- Σύνδεσμος Υποστήριξης Ρωμαίικων Κοινοτικών Ιδρυμάτων — Τα βακούφια μας
- İstanbul ve Çanakkale illerinde faaliyette bulunan Rum Ortodoks ibadethaneleri — Κατάλογος των ιερών λατρευτικών χώρων Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Ίμβρου και Τενέδου
- ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΑΡΜΑΣΙΚΙΟΥ — rumvader.org
- Sarmaşık Aya Dimitri Rum Ortodoks Kilisesi Vakfı — rumvader.org
- İstanbul Ansiklopedisi (Reşad Ekrem Koçu), vol. 3 – AYİOS DİMİTRİOS RUM ORTODOKS KİLİSESİ (Edirnekapı/Sarmaşık) — accessed 2026-10; earlier church destroyed by fire, 1834 building, bell tower and 1905 bell
- Wikipedia (it) – Chiesa di San Demetrio a Sarmaşık — accessed 2026-10; narthex inscription 20 April 1834; lists of 1583 and 1593
- Orthodoxia News Agency – Through the Cross come bearing witness and martyrdom — 2025-12-19; holy spring of St Sebastian; status: liturgy 18 December 2025
- Wikidata Q118496035 — coordinates, queried 2026-10-13
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