Fener, also spelled Phanar, is a quarter midway up the Golden Horn in the district of Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey. The Turkish name is derived from the Greek word "phanarion", meaning lantern, streetlig
A street in Fener
Fener district in c. 1900.
Exterior of St. George's Cathedral. The neo-Classical façade marks it out from other Orthodox churches in the Byzantine style.
Residence of the patriarch in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Fener.
Phanar Greek Orthodox College or Phanar Roman Orthodox Lyceum, known in Greek as the Great School of the Nation and Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople, is the oldest surviving and most prestigious
Fener
…population and a copy of the ferman (edict) decreeing this still hangs on the church wall. Near the Church of St Mary of the Mongols is the huge red-brick Phanar Greek Orthodox College. The historian Dimitri Cantemir was a student here in the 17th century. Today it has only a tiny number of pupils. A second Greek school in Fener, the…
Greek Orthodox College in Istanbul 0748 Flickr Ragnhild & Neil Crawford
The college seen from a Greek house in Vodina Caddesi
Phanar Greek Orthodox High School
Phanar Greek Orthodox High School