{"id":185938,"date":"2018-01-09T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=185938"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T09:17:51","slug":"historic-iron-church-in-istanbul-reopens-after-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/historic-iron-church-in-istanbul-reopens-after-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Iron Church in Istanbul reopens after restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s president and the Bulgarian prime minister have unveiled the historic Iron Church in Istanbul after a seven-year restoration project.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s opening ceremony, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the 120-year-old Sveti Stefan Church remains the \u201csingle example\u201d of a church built on an iron skeleton.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-shaped Bulgarian church was built on the banks of Istanbul\u2019s Golden Horn in 1898 with 500 tons of prefabricated iron components shipped from Austria. Its restoration since 2011 cost an estimated $3.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan said the church contributes to the \u201cbeauty and wealth of Istanbul\u201d and is the latest example of Turkey\u2019s efforts to restore synagogues, chapels and churches.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/5eb2a43a98e14e1b80cf28d49ff6560f\/Historic-Iron-Church-in-Istanbul-reopens-after-restoration\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s president and the Bulgarian prime minister have unveiled the historic Iron Church in Istanbul after a seven-year restoration project. In Sunday\u2019s opening ceremony, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the 120-year-old Sveti Stefan Church remains the \u201csingle example\u201d of a church built on an iron skeleton. The cross-shaped Bulgarian church was built on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":185783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8723,13770,13769,445,13284,13771],"class_list":["post-185938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-bulgarian","tag-golden-horn","tag-iron-church","tag-istanbul","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-sveti-stefan-church"],"better_featured_image":{"id":185783,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":800,"height":533,"file":"2018\/01\/800-1.jpeg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"800-1-360x360.jpeg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/800-1-360x360.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":185781,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/800-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185938\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=185938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185938\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185783\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=185938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=185938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=185938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}