Saint Mary's Catholic Church () is a
Catholic
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church in
Bornova
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district
Ä°zmir
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,
Turkey
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.
History
Saint Mary's Catholic Church was built by the
Franciscans
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in 1831, according to the inscriptions in the church. During the creation of Bornova Cumhuriyet Square in the 1970s, the area of the church shrank with the construction of new buildings in the surrounding area. The church's immovables were transferred to the Italian Catholic Church by a court decision in 2018.
References
External links
Official website(in Turkish)
{{Catholic Church in Turkey
Churches completed in 1831
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Turkey
Roman Catholic churches in Ä°zmir
Bornova District
1831 establishments in the Ottoman Empire