Near the mosque of Ibrahim Pasha there are "and ovovy, dedicated to Fasilsh the Great. It was built on the ruins of the glorious monastery, where Patriarch Tosig was buried, during the reign of Andronikos the Old (). There were many churches in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker in Constantinople®. One of them was in Blachernae ("), the other inside the large palace; it was built by Basil of Macedon (; the third was built by the Englishman, who went to Constantinople after his fatherland was conquered by William of Nordmann (); the fourth, finally, was founded by Patrimem and Quaestor Basilides, in the reign of Justinian: this last one can still be seen, between the mosque and the City Gate, Top Kapu.
(°) Pachymer, ki. 7, ch. 15.
^) Goteelinus, book. Ch. No. 56. Relics of the saint. Tsaraskevi were kept in the Nathrar Church; but since according to Turkish laws it is forbidden to bring dead bodies into churches, then Vasizhy, Prince Moldavek, was barely able, and then for a lot of money, to get permission to take them to Iasi, GDB and put them in the monastery of the three Terarchs. The Greeks especially revere this saint, and therefore have preserved two more churches in her memory: one in the northern part of the pier, between the villages of Piri-Nasha and Gaskyu, the other near the Seven Tower Castle, between the Khoja-Mustavi and Izmapl-Pashin mosques. In Fanarekom predmfetsh, near Vlakh-Saray (Vallahevay palace, belonging to the Lords of Vadlahekim, there is a church, which the Turks call Kanli Azlissgya, and the Greeks Mokna-Pan-Mgogya: it is dependent on the /egalo-Spizhonsky monastery (monastery of the sick cave), built by Paleologasi, on Morea noluistro5 in Kalavritv; in this church there are two holy springs: one is dedicated to St. Anne, the other is nicknamed Maguluotis, from the common word Lagulo (jaw), because one Empress was cured of toothache by its healing waters. The Church of St. Polycarp, near the Peamat Sheki Gate, is surrounded by a dome. 36 ft. in diameter. In this church I entered an underground cave, there is a spring of water dedicated to St. Minthos. There is also a church called Panagea Exi-Marmara, in which there is a chapel of the Holy Duva the Deliverer. The church Imanaggl tou Kanjerli (Our Lady with a Dagger) is so named because in the image, in a silver robe, the Mother of God is depicted with a dagger piercing her heart. This church is near the old Constantine Palace (Tekir Serai). It contains the source of St. Tsaraskevsh.
Near the Valam Gate, almost at the end of the pier, there are two churches, both called Gaksyarchi, with the addition Usomaton and UChrhistratigo () (this is how the Archangel Michael is called), One of them belongs to the Armenians, and the other to the Greeks; One day the dwarf showed me a miraculous stone (with a through answer in the middle) Cantacusius, book. 5. Ch. 88. which people go to to cure a fever.
There are also a few more churches in Galat V and Cherf; but, firstly, I didn’t have time to examine them; secondly, they are unknown and unmemorable in relation to antiquity or art. The patriarchal sacristy is rich, as are all the utensils in the churches; but this is owed, for the most part, to our Kings, the Princes of Moldova and Wallachia, and to some rich Greeks. However, no art was produced in them at all; the clergy is still in great oppression from the Turks. Only the Patriarch still enjoys respect, only because he is needed in troubled times, due to the influence he has over the Orthodox Greeks.
Now I will turn to the suburb of Fanari, which can be called a rather similar depiction of the former Eastern Empire (). Greeks, (°) This similarity has become much weaker since the time when most of the nobles of the Ggechekh fakhnals transferred to the new Co: the Greek state, and Mollavakeve and Voloshele Goepodari did not choose the most of them, living in it, exactly the courtiers of that time, only more oppressed and despised by their overlords; but they, by their subtlety, humiliation and cunning, will gain the confidence of the Turkish government in which they rule and almost reign. Give them schools, enlighten them, and perhaps from them the Greeks of the times of Pericles and Alexander will be reborn. Thus, the moral life of the peoples overcomes the extermination of the ancients and even the force of the heavy yoke: it did not destroy the nature of the Greeks, just as it could not destroy the mountain ranges running through the state.
From Phanari I again went to Blacherna, to look at the ruins of the Velisarlev chambers: this is a pile of stones, and there is no reason to assume that here once were the chambers of the great Velisarmus. It seems to me much more likely that these remains belonged to the palace or monastery of Blachernae.