Peksimet Kilisesi

Özet

Bu kısa yazıda Turgutreisin 4 km yakınındaki Peksimet Köyünde bulunan, 19. yüzyıla ait küçük bir Rum Kilisesi tanıtılmaktadır. Kilise 1840lı yıllarda inşa edilmiş olup, 1870de bir onarım geçirmiştir. Bu dini yapı Turgutreisteki en önemli mimarlık tarihi içerikli yapılardan birisidir.

Abstract

The most important ancient toponymies in Turgutreis are Termera, a Classical Greek-Roman site at Asarlık Tepe, and Strobilos, Aspat or Çıfıtkale, a Byzantine fortress site. Strobilos was first mentioned in A.D. 724, making it one of the few known Anatolian localities to be established during the early Middle Ages on Halicarnassian Peninsula and hence, according to Clive Foss, should reveal the appearance of a distinctively Byzantine site . It is best known as a place of exile, as well as an important fortress and naval base of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme, which was twice attacked by the Arabs, in A.D. 924 and 1035. The existence of a monastery on the site is also attested in the 11th century. The fortress was sacked by the Seljuk Turks around 1080, but it was recovered and refortified under the Komnenian emperors. It remained in Byzantine hands until 1269, when it was captured by the Turkish Emirate of Menteshe. The focus of this paper is the former Greek church on a hill in Kadıkalesi or Peksimet, one of the most intact and best-conditioned Post-Byzantine religious buildings on Halicarnassian Peninsula. Peksimet is c. 4 km far from Turgutreis from where an unsealed road goes north to its shore. This little church of the 19th cent. will enlarge our perspectives of Ottoman Greek architecture in Caria.