M-rea Studion (azi moscheea Imrahor) –

- Hagios Ioannes Prodromos en tois Stoudiou ♦ Monastery of Stoudios

- historically the most important monastery of Constantinople

- founded in 462 by the consul Stoudios, a Roman patrician who had settled in Constantinople
- three emperors - Michael V, Michael VII, and Isaac I Komnenos - took monastic vows in the Stoudion
- In 1204, the monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders and was not fully restored until 1290. It is thought that the
cloister sheltered as much as 700 monks at the time. The greater part of the monastery was again destroyed when the
Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453.
- The only part to survive into the 20th century was the Cathedral of St. John Baptist, probably the oldest remaining
church in Istanbul, a 5th century basilica which was converted by Bayezid II's equerry into the mosque İmrahor Camii
(literally, Mosque of the Stablemaster). The ancient structure sustained grave damage from the great fires of 1782 and
1920; the earthquake of 1894 also contributed to its ruin.