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The oldest house in Constantinople belonged to the Kavafians

The oldest surviving house in Constantinople is considered living proof of Turkish architecture.

In all architectural textbooks, the author Sedat Eldem is presented as an irrefutable fact of the above.

It didn’t work again!

It turned out somehow inconvenient but it was recently revealed that the house belonged to the Kavafian family and was built by master Harutyun Yerznkatsi.

Sukias Torosyan Translation Art-A-Tsolum

Vigen Avetisyan

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