Monastery of Stoudios
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The Monastery of Stoudios, more fully Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner "at Stoudios", often shortened to Stoudios, Studion or Stoudion, was a Greek Orthodox monastery in Constantinople, the capi
Ruined facade of the Monastery, the apse
Byzantine miniature depicting the Stoudios Monastery and the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000).
Image of St. Theodore the Studite (11th-century mosaic from Nea Moni monastery on Chios).
The interior of the St. John Stoudios (Imrahor) Monastery in February 2017
Iljaz bej Mirahori
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Iljaz Bej Mirahori was an Ottoman Albanian military commander and governor, who served sultan Bayezid II. He founded the town of Korçë in Albania in the 15th century, participated in the Conquest of C
Monastery of Stoudios
…monastery of the Acoemetae. Today it is converted into the Imrahor Mosque (or Mosque of the Equerry), named after Ottoman sultan Bayezid II's equerry, Mirahor Ilias Bey. The Stoudites gave the first proof of their devotion to the Orthodox Faith during the schism of Acacius (484–519); they also remained loyal during the…
Tomb of Ilyas Bey (right) in the backyard of the Görice mosque in 1998
The Imrahor Mosque as monument in Istanbul