Middle Ages on the Move The Lands of the East through the eyes of travelling friars A project by DoSt-I, in collaboration with Federico De Renzi and Simone Costanzo The lecture series explores the experiences of travelling religious such as Dominicans, and Franciscans and the complicated creation of new cultural ties and in the lands …
Intereligious Dialogue In an Age of Volcanoes and Refugees In this conference we would like to rediscover why fraternal encounter with people from far-off lands is so important today. We’ll try to sketch the shape of Christian-Muslim relations as they were for the first decade or so of this century. Then, we’d explore some of …
Do You Remember Abraham? an almost brandnew podcast (in Turkish) The lecture entitled ‘Do you remember Abraham… A comparative approach to the stories of Abraham in the Quran and the Bible’, presented by Dr George Bristow on 17 April has been released as a podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify or on our …
Gregory of Nazianzus new podcast (in Turkish) The lecture “Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit, presented by Dr Elif Tokay on 15 December 2022, is now available as a podcast on Spotify or on our website. Elif Tokay works in the History of Religions Department of the Faculty …
Philosophy, Science & Religion Philosophy, the natural sciences, and religion are fundamental components of every culture and human thought history. In their own way, they help man face fundamental questions about his life. Despite the differences in the methods they use and the differences in the way they perceive the world, philosophy, science and religion …
Summer mass schedule Starting Saturday 6th May, the weekly mass time changes. Mass will now be celebrated each Saturday at 7pm.
Sharing Abraham Do Muslims and Christians truly share Abraham? Is Abraham a starting point for dialogue among monotheistic faith communities? These questions have seldom been examined as thoroughly or as sensitively as they are here. Bristow rigorously analyzes biblical and qur’anic Abraham narratives and builds on the tight connection between narrative and worldview to lay …
Holy week 2023 Where and when ? Palm Sunday – 1st April 2023 6:30 pm, Sen Piyer Kilisesi, Galata Kulesi sokak Maundy Thursday – 6th April 2023 Lord’s Supper 7:00 pm, Sen Piyer Kilisesi, Galata Kulesi sokak Good Friday – 7th April 2023 Reading of the Passion of the Lord 7:00 pm, Santa Maria Draperis …
Arrival Hello, my name is Louis. I am French, more precisely from Britanny in western France. I arrived in Istanbul on the 26th of January and will be at the convent for the next five months. Studying engineering in Paris, I decided to take a gap year. During the past six months, I worked as …
With a heart full of sorrow On 6 February, two earthquakes affected the south of Turkey and the north of Syria. The Dominican convent of Istanbul joins the mourning of those who lost members of their families, relatives and of the entire Turkish population that has been heavily affected. Our thoughts and prayers are …
