Buried in foreign soil. The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery of Istanbul as a testament to five centuries [lecture by Richard Wittmann]

0570327 - OÚ 2023 eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Taglia, Stefano
Buried in foreign soil. The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery of Istanbul as a testament to five centuries [lecture by Richard Wittmann].
[Praha, 01.11.2022(WRD 1/1]
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Keywords : Feriköy Protestant Cemetery * Ottoman Empire * Turkey * protestantism * Protestants
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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This paper will introduce Istanbul’s Feriköy Protestant Cemetery as a historic landmark attesting to the multicultural and international character, which has shaped the metropolis of Istanbul for centuries. Situated in Istanbul’s Feriköy district, the cemetery bears witness to the vital role that generations of Protestants of European and other nationalities played in the social, academic, and cultural life of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. It has tremendous importance, with a heritage that not only reaches to the burial ground’s opening in the mid-1800s but also to earlier periods. Many of its monuments date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, having been moved to Feriköy from a previous, no-longer-extant cemetery that served the city’s Protestant community for almost three hundred years. In 2018, upon the initiative of the Orient-Institut Istanbul a group of Istanbul-based international scholars formed the Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative (http://www.ferikoycemetery.org/) to document, study and preserve this little-known burial ground on Europe’s edge as a historic landmark. As a result of these pursuits, in August 2022 the Feriköy Protestant Cemetery has earned official recognition as a “Significant Cemetery of Europe” (https://www.significantcemeteries.org/2022/08/ferikoy-protestant-cemetery-istanbul-turkey.html). A final place of rest for mainly foreign Christians in a predominantly Muslim environment, Feriköy is a unique physical testimony to the existence of a diverse community of Protestants, some of whom made key contributions to Ottoman and Turkish life in such important fields as higher education, commerce, the arts, and government administration.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0341626