Call Number:

C0692

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

9 boxes

Language:

Greek, Modern (1453-) and Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Constantinople Records of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1750-1925 (inclusive)

Creator:

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Form:

Commercial correspondence -- 20th century., Documents., and Promissory notes -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists of administrative records of the Constantinople "metochion" of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Constantinople is a "daughter-house" of the monastery at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The collection consists of administrative records of the Constantinople "metochion" of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Included are documents concerning property transactions of the Holy Sepulchre; promissory notes issued by the Holy Sepulchre in the 1820s; documents relating to publishing activities of the Holy Sepulchre (1824-26, 1853-57); early 20th-century Constantinople correspondence of a textile company named Sterea; and various other Greek and Ottoman documents.