_____________________________________ Journal of Religious Culture Journal für Religionskultur Ed. by / Hrsg. von Edmund Weber Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Association with / in Zusammenarbeit mit Matthias Benad, Mustafa Cimsit, Natalia Diefenbach, Martin Mittwede, Vladislav Serikov, Ajit S. Sikand, Ida Bagus Putu Suamba & Roger Töpelmann in Cooperation with the Institute for Religious Peace Research / in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Wissenschaftliche Irenik Assistent Editor/ Redaktionsassistentin Susan Stephanie Tsomakaeva ISSN 1434-5935 - © E.Weber – E-mail
[email protected]; http//publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/series/id/16137; irenik.org/ publikationen /jrc; ; http//www.wissenschaftliche-irenik.org/ _____________________________________ No. 248 (2019) The Byzantine Churches of Constantinople An Introduction By Maria Vaiou 2 Apart from Du Cange’s (1610-88) and Janin’s, comprehensive survey of Byzantine churches and monasteries of Constantinople no other up-to-date thematic or chronological survey exists on the subject. Janin, in addition to his monumental work, which serves as a guide for his extensive and detailed study of Byzantine churches and monasteries of Constantinople, based on literary sources, provides us with a collection of articles on topography and on the history of certain monasteries of Constantinople, according to their nominal dedication.1 Paspates, Gedeon, Van Millingen, Mathews, Müller-Wiener, Mamboury, Diehl, Eyice, Ebersholt, Berger, Karaca, Goubert,