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"The Chora Chapel: A Place for Ritual"
Assoc. Prof. Engin Akyürek is our guest speaker at Objects and Rituals this month with a presentation entitled, "The Chora Chapel: A Place for Ritual," in which he describes the grave chapel attached to the south side of the Church of St. Savior in Chora. Constructed during the late Byzantine period, the chapel became a site used for Byzantine funerary rites. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m.
"The architectural layout of the chapel was designed to accommodate the celebration of the rituals of burial and remembrance of the dead," says Ayürek. "The meaning of the rites become apparent through the building's decorative fresco, itself an inherent component of all Byzantine architecture."
Held on the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the Istanbul Lectures center on the topic, "The Three Eras of Istanbul: Byzantine, Ottoman, and Republican."
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 Assoc. Prof. Engin Akyürek
Born in 1957 in Istanbul, Akyürek attended the Kadıköy Maarif Koleji in Istanbul, then graduated in 1982 from the Department of Public Administration and Political Science at Middle East Technical University. After completing a master's program in the Department of Art History at Istanbul University, he obtained his Ph.D. from the same department in 1994, and in 1998, became an assistant professor in the Department of Art History (Byzantine Art). Awarded a scholarship by the Turkish Academy of Sciences, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois for three months. Akyürek was promoted associate professor in 2003 and currently teaches Byzantine Art in the Department of Art History at Istanbul University. |
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Voyvoda Street
Lectures Objects and Rituals
"War, Siege and Assault
in Ottoman Miniature"
Assoc. Prof. Engin Akyürek
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Free admission
The Ottoman Bank Museum
Bankalar (Voyvoda) Caddesi 35/37
(0212) 334 22 70
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