The architects Ender Ergün and Eser Ergün, who realised the conceptual design of the Syriac Church of the Virgin Mary in Yeşilköy, will participate as speakers in the third of the lecture series on ‘Contemporary Religious Architecture in the Mediterranean World’, jointly organised by the Dominican Studies Institute-Istanbul (Dost-I) and the Sociology Department of Medeniyet University in Istanbul, with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erhan Berat Fındıklı as project manager, and also with contributions from Depo Pergamon, Italian Cultural Institute-Istanbul, Instituto Cervantes de Estambul.

In 2013, architect Ender Ergün and his son Eser Ergün, who continue to work in the Ergün Architecture studio, founded in 1995, prepared the conceptual design of the Syriac Church of St. Mary in Yeşilköy, bringing a contemporary interpretation to traditional Syriac Orthodox architecture. This project, which could not be realised, presents a perspective that overcomes the tension between historicism and contemporary design preferences in the context of religious architecture in Turkey.