Church St. Demetrius of Kanabus - First book of A. Van Millingen

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“Considerable interest is attached to the Church of St. Demetrius, situated within the walls a few paces to the east of Atik Mustapha Pasha Djamissi ; for although the present edifice dates only from the beginning of the eighteenth century, the original building was a Byzantine foundation, adorned with mosaics and surmounted by a dome. Its full style was the Church of St. Demetrius of Kanabus, and may, as the Patriarch Constantius suggests, have been erected by a member of the family of the Nicholas Kanabus who became emperor for a few days, in the interval between the overthrow of the Angeli and the usurpation of Murtzuphlus, during the troublous times of the Fourth Crusade. 

In 1334, the church was the property of George Pepagomenos, a relative of Andronicus III. After the Turkish Conquest the church became, from 1597 to 1601, the cathedral of the Greek Patriarch, when he was deprived of the use of the Church of the Pammakaristos (Fethiyeh Djamissi).” 

(A. Van Millingen, Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City, London, John Murray, 1899, p. 197-198. See: https://archive.org/stream/byzantineconstan00vanm#page/n7/mode/2up)