Şişli Greek Orthodox Cemetery (), also known as ''Şişli Eastern Orthodox Cemetery'', is a

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. The burial ground is the final resting place of people professing the

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faith in Istanbul. The cemetery is located in

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district of

just across the

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History and description

The cemetery was founded in 1859, and consists mostly of

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graves as well as other Orthodox nationalities and ethnoreligious groups such as

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and Turkish/Turkic Christians. The burial ground occupies , and since its opening,a total of roughly 85,000 individuals have been interred at the site with 3–4 burials taking place weekly.

Cemetery chapel

The funerary church is referred to as Metamorphosis (" Our Lord Saviour´s Transfiguration"). The inscription says that the church was erected in 1888 at the expense of Schilizzi Stephanovik's sons "in eternal memory of their parents".Agelastos Family Genealogy Pages
– Headstones, Schilizzi Church, Sisli Constantinople Cemetery

Selected notable burials

A few of the notables buried here are: * Eleni Fotiadou (1921–2001), photojournalist *

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(1891–1936), singer known as "Deniz Kızı Eftalya" *

Demetrius Stefanovich Schilizzi Demetrius Stefanovich Schilizzi (many spellings; ; 1839–1893) was an Ottoman-born Greek banker in London and Paris, and later a steamship owner in Constantinople. He was also the acting Italian consul in Calcutta for some time starting in 1864, a ...

(1839–1893) *

Georgios Zariphis Georgios Y. Zariphis (, ; 1810 – 28 March 1884), also known as Yorgo Zarifi, was a prominent Ottoman Greek banker and financier. He was also well known as a prominent benefactor of his time. Zariphis met Sultan Abdul Hamid II when the latter wa ...

(1810–1884), prominent

Ottoman banker and financier

External links and references

Agelastos Family Genealogy Pages
– Sisli Greek Orthodox Cemetery {{DEFAULTSORT:Sisli Greek Orthodox Cemetery Cemeteries in Istanbul Eastern Orthodox cemeteries in Turkey Şişli Greek Orthodoxy in Turkey Greeks in Istanbul Religious buildings and structures completed in 1859 Russian diaspora in Turkey 19th-century architecture in Turkey Cemeteries established in the 1850s