page_title: Monastery of Stoudios
section_title: Modern condition
hierarchical_section_title: Monastery of Stoudios / Modern condition
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Interiér bývalého kláštera Svatý Jan Křtitel ve Studiu v Istanbulu English: The interior of the St. John Stoudios (Imrahor) Monastery
context_page_description: The Monastery of Stoudios, more fully Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner "at Stoudios", often shortened to Stoudios, Studion, or Stoudion, was a Greek Orthodox monastery in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The residents of the monastery were referred to as Stoudites. Although the monastery has been derelict for half a millennium, the laws and customs of the Stoudion were taken as models by the monks of Mount Athos and of many other monasteries of the Orthodox world; even today they have influence.
  The ruins of the monastery are situated not far from the Propontis in the section of Istanbul called Psamathia, today's Koca Mustafa Paşa. It was founded in 462 by the consul Flavius Studius, a Roman patrician who had settled in Constantinople, and was consecrated to Saint John the Baptist. Its first monks came from the monastery of the Acoemetae.
context_section_description: The only part to survive into the 20th century was the Cathedral of St. John Baptist, probably the oldest remaining church in Istanbul. This is a 5th-century basilica which was converted by Bayezid II's equerry into the mosque İmrahor Camii (literally, Mosque of the Equerry). The ancient structure sustained grave damage from the great fires of 1782 and 1920; the 1894 Istanbul earthquake also contributed to its ruin.
  Following the 1894 earthquake, a group of Russian Byzantinist scholars led by Fyodor Uspensky opened the Russian Archaeological Institute on the monastery grounds, but its activity was suppressed in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the subsequent decades the ruins of the monastery complex were looted by local inhabitants to repair their houses, while the magnificent 13th century pavement still lies open to elements "and disappears slowly but steadily".
  In 2013 plans were announced that the church, currently a museum, was to be converted into a mosque after a restoration.
caption: The interior of the St. John Stoudios (Imrahor) Monastery in February 2017
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