TY - JOUR AU - Anastassiadou-Dumont, Méropi PY - 2019/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Sacred Spaces in a Holy City. Crossing Religious Boundaries in Istanbul at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century JF - Entangled Religions JA - ER VL - 9 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.13154/er.v9.2019.34-56 UR - https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8278 SP - 34-56 AB - <p>The article examines Muslim pilgrimages to Christian places of worship in Istanbul after&nbsp;the 1950s. It aims to answer whether and how the Ottoman heritage of cultural diversity fits or does not&nbsp;fit with the pattern of the nation-state. After a brief bibliographic overview of the issue of shared sacred&nbsp;spaces, the presentation assembles, as a first step, some of the key elements of Istanbul’s multi-secular&nbsp;links with religious practices: the sanctity of the city both for Christianity and Islam; the long tradition of&nbsp;pilgrimages and their importance for the local economy; meanings and etymologies of the word pilgrimage&nbsp;in the most common languages of the Ottoman space; and the silence of the nineteenth century’s Greek&nbsp;sources concerning the sharing of worship. The second part focuses more specifically on some Orthodox<br>Greek sacred spaces in Istanbul increasingly frequented by Muslims during the last decades.</p> ER -