Hagia Triada Church Architecture Analysis in Ayvalık

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The ancient name of Ayvalık is Kydonies. In 1653, Ayvalık is a coast in which rich dwellers live there. In 17th and 18th century, Ayvalık is one of the most important trade center like İzmir. Since olive dominates in trade, the number of the olive plantatians and soaperies continued to rise to produce olives, olive oil and olive products.Ayvalık gradually became the most important trade center of the Edremit in 19th century.It also became the most im-portant education center because of the presence of Gymnasium Kydonion which was made in 1903.In the Ottoman area, Muslims and Greeks used to live together in Ayvalık which was an autonomous accomodation site.Greeks who constituted the majority of the population built churches, olive oil plantations, soaperies and storage units that reflect their own cultural, social and economic status in the historical texture.In this paper, the architectural and artistic specifications of the Hagia Triada Church is studied which is embedded in Ayvalık s historical texture. In accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne which was signed in 1923, negative effects takes place in Church is studied after the process of the religious population between Turkey and Greece.

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Ayvalık , Greek Orthodox , Church , Exchange , Wooden

Trakya university journal of engineering sciences

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Trakya university journal of engineering sciences