The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew performed on Thursday afternoon, 7 March 2024, the inauguration of the radically renovated Church of the Divine Ascension in Hypsomatheia.
The ceremony was attended by the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality of Constantinople, Ekrem İmamoğlu, with a large team of his associates, as the Metropolitan Municipality undertook the respectable expense of renovating the old church on his initiative.
Also present were Metropolitan Maximos of Selyvria, the members of the Temple’s Committee, and a large number of believers and residents.
The Ecumenical Patriarch in his brief greeting thanked Mayor İmamoğlu and his colleagues for their kind action to renovate the Temple and its surroundings which belong to the cultural heritage of Constantinople and the Mayor said that it was an honor for them to undertake and carry out such a great project.
Photo: Nikos Papachristou / Translated by Ioanna Georgakopoulou