St John the Evangelist Anglican church in Alsancak, Izmir
Now just over a hundred years on, it continues to serve an active congregation of British, American and Australian nationals, as well as a visiting tour parties and growing community of local Protestants.
image courtesy of Willem Daniels
image courtesy of Onur İnal
image courtesy of Onur İnal
Neighbouring former parsonage, functioning as the local British Consulate.
image courtesy of Onur İnal
image courtesy of Onur İnal
image courtesy of Onur İnal
image courtesy of Onur İnal
Window dedicated to Ethel Alithea Gout.
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
Window dedicated to Cecil Percy Rice who died in WWI.
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
Window dedicated to Ida Josephine Rees.
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
The view from possibly the 1970s of the rear portion of the St John’s church, showing Bishop Collin’s Hall, possibly in the aftermath of the pulling down of the adjoining property (formely Giraud) there for which a building permit for a new building couldn’t be obtained as the destruction was not authorised and the condition was to rebuild in the exact same manner. Today that space functions as a car-wash. Around this time there was a unilateral intervention on the garden side of the St John's Church and adjoining British Consulate building in the 1970s during the tenure of the Izmir Mayor Ihsan Alyanak (in office 1973-1980) when the boundary wall was knocked down and the garden lost around 4 m of ground to a road widening project. This led to a diplomatic incident with the British Government sending a note of protest to the Turkish Government.