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Possibly my favourite story of the trip. In the 1860s the Bulgarian community in Istanbul apparently had a falling-out with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchy, and thus felt the need for their own church. So they had a church made in Vienna, cast entirely out of iron, and shipped to them in pieces in 1871. This is the Church of St. Stephen of the Bulgars.

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