The Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage is a historic wooden building on Buyukada, one of the Princes' Islands near Istanbul, Turkey, designed by the French Ottoman architect Alexander Vallaury and begun in 1898 as a luxury hotel and casino for the Orient Express company. When the Turkish government refused an operating permit in 1903, the building was donated to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which converted it into an orphanage that operated until it was forced to close in 1964 amid tensions over Cyprus. Covering about 20,000 square meters with 206 rooms, it is considered the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the world, and it sheltered roughly 5,800 orphans over its years of operation. The building deteriorated after closing and suffered a major fire in 1980; following decades of legal disputes it was returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2012, and restoration work involving the Patriarchate and private developers is underway. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own account Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Turkey, located there.
Sources
1. Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinkipo_Greek_Orthodox_Orphanage, lead definition
The Prinkipo Greek Orphanage (Turkish: Prinkipo Rum Yetimhanesi, also known as Prinkipo Palace or Büyükada Greek Orphanage) is a historic 20,000-square-meter wooden building on Büyükada, one of the nine Princes' Islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage is a historic wooden building on Buyukada, one of the Princes' Islands near Istanbul, Turkey, designed by the French Ottoman architect Alexander Vallaury and begun in 1898 as a luxury hotel and casino for the Orient Express company. When the Turkish government refused an operating permit in 1903, the building was donated to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which converted it into an orphanage that operated until it was forced to close in 1964 amid tensions over Cyprus. Covering about 20,000 square meters with 206 rooms, it is considered the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the world, and it sheltered roughly 5,800 orphans over its years of operation. The building deteriorated after closing and suffered a major fire in 1980; following decades of legal disputes it was returned to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2012, and restoration work involving the Patriarchate and private developers is underway.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Hotel)
building_type = Hotel, Orphanage
Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia categories
Category:Wooden buildings and structures in Turkey
View the Source2. Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1903)
Wikidata item Q5005317, property P571: 1903
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 24.0
Wikidata item Q5005317, property P2048 (height): 24.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Büyükada, Turkey
Wikidata item Q5005317, property P131/P17 (location): Büyükada, Turkey
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