Stephen - Fatih Camii/Aya todori/Church of Christ/Hagios Stephanos, Trilye

Name of structure: Stephen - Fatih Camii/Aya todori/Church of Christ/Hagios Stephanos, Trilye
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church but now a mosque
Country or main area: Turkey
Region within country or main area: Bursa Province
City or area within region: Trilye [originally Trigleia, then Zeytinbagi]
Date of structure: c. 720-730? 780-813?
Century of structure 1: 8 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Traces of mosaic in soffits of columns of transept
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Wall mosaics no longer extant, but traces of very large cubes of black and white in a checkerboard pattern in soffits
Date of mosaic:
Century of mosaic 1: 8 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Unknown
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done? Unknown
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Cyril Mango, and Ihor Sevenko, ‘Some Churches and Monasteries on the Southern Shores of the Sea of Marmara, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 27 (1973), 235-277, see p. 236.
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Comments:

‘After the whitewash had been scraped off the walls, there appeared wonderful mosaics which I deeply regret I did not photograph for lack of film’.   
Tryphon Euangelides (local scholar), Βρύλλειον-Τρίγλεια (Athens, 1934), p. 119, quoted in Cyril Mango, and Ihor Sevenko, ‘Some Churches and Monasteries on the Southern Shores of the Sea of Marmara, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 27 (1973), 235-277, see p. 236.
Recorded by F. W. Hasluck, 'Bithynica', The Annual of the British School at Athens, 13 (1906/07), p. 290
Record Incomplete

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