Kuzguncuk
Historic Bosphorus-side neighborhood where synagogue, church, and mosque share the same street.
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This guide to Kuzguncuk in Istanbul opens with a 1952 donation: the neighborhood's Armenian congregation funded a mosque that rose inside the courtyard of their own church. You'll hear how the Bet Yaakov Synagogue, built in 1878 for Sephardic families descended from Spain's 1492 expulsion, stood steps from Greek Orthodox and Armenian neighbors on Icadiye Street, and how the September 1955 pogrom scattered a community that once numbered eight hundred Jewish families. Walk the street today and count how many faiths still share it.
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