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Istanbul, Gül Camii, eleventh-fourteenth centuries, north-south section (after: Theis, Flankenräume im mittelbyzantinischen Kirchenbau)
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The juxtaposition of historical and architectural evidence supports the possibility of seclusion practice in the church proper. This hypothesis is valid for both the Byzantine Empire and Old Rus?. Seclusion in a church led to a higher authority and religious status of an ascetic. The structural pair of a cell and a chapel above it was introduced in...
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... of the 'Melismos chapel' , was built as the hesichasterion of a high-status monk, or even a pair of relatives, which after his/their death was to be trans- 32 36 The functional purpose of the spaces located in the eastern piers of Gül Camii, a monument with several Byzantine construction stages from the eleventh till the fourteenth centuries ( fig. 3), still remains unclear. Both chambers were placed between the upper and lower storeys of the church, and small winding stairs built into the piers led to these spaces. B. Schellewald believed they were used as a concealed treasury to store relics. 37 However, I propose to examine them as a possible place for seclusion. L. Theis argued ...
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