Qualla: St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit Mustafasabirli, CC BY-SA 4.0. The floor of St. John's Anglican is supported, in the crypt below it, by short lengths of railway track stood vertically and packed with concrete. The architect was no professional ecclesiastical designer; he was Mr S. Watkins, an engineer of the Ottoman Railway Company, a British concern then laying track from Smyrna to Aydin. He had iron rail to spare and a parishioners' fund that could not stretch to Portland stone columns. So the church got a foundation engineered the way a railway viaduct is engineered, and a neo-Gothic shell built on top of it, and on 7 April 1902 it was consecrated by Charles Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar. The first Anglican chaplain to Smyrna had arrived 266 years earlier, in 1636, and there had been one in the city continuously ever since.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/swg6-st-john-the-evangelists-anglican-church-izmir-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: Smyrna in Revelation https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit Mustafasabirli, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Book of Revelation sends greetings to Smyrna in chapter 2 verse 8, and warns the church that some of its members will face martyrdom but encourages them to be faithful unto death. The most famous of those martyrs was Polycarp, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist, w...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/swg6-st-john-the-evangelists-anglican-church-izmir-smyrna-in-revelation.mp3 0:06 2 full St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: The Bishop Who Died at Sea https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit A.Savin, FAL. On 22 March 1911, William Edward Collins, Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar, died on board the steamship Saghalien while sailing from Constantinople to Smyrna for a visitation. His body was carried the rest of the way and buried inside St. John's, on the left of the entrance. His grav...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/swg6-st-john-the-evangelists-anglican-church-izmir-the-bishop-who-died-at-sea.mp3 0:06 3 full St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: Charles Dobson and the Burning City https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit Ozlmktv, CC BY-SA 4.0. Charles Dobson, a New Zealand-born priest, was chaplain at St. John's in September 1922 when the Great Fire of Smyrna swept through the Greek and Armenian quarters of the city. Smyrna's old name had survived in foreign use longer than its Greek population would. The Greco-Turkish...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/swg6-st-john-the-evangelists-anglican-church-izmir-charles-dobson-and-the-burning-city.mp3 0:06 4 full St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: The Building That Stayed https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit Mustafasabirli, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Alsancak quarter where St. John's stands was on the north side of the cosmopolitan zone and survived the fire. The neo-Gothic church survived and so did the Anglican community, drastically smaller but continuous. The sanctuary kept its altar beneath three stained-glass window...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/g/6/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir-wp/swg6-st-john-the-evangelists-anglican-church-izmir-the-building-that-stayed.mp3 0:06 5 full St. John the Evangelist's Anglican Church, Izmir: What a Quiet Church Remembers https://qualla.com/st-john-the-evangelist-s-anglican-church-izmir/ Photo credit Mustafasabirli, CC BY-SA 4.0. St. John the Evangelist sits two streets back from the Izmir corniche, hemmed by apartment buildings, the kind of building you walk past without noticing unless you know what it is. Inside, the railway-track foundation is invisible; the seashell font and the bishop's grave are no...

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