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The Hagia Triada Church was the first domed Orthodox Christian Church built in Ottoman-controlled Constantinople, circa 1880. It is located near Taksim Square and still has around 200 congregants, including a surviving Greek school. Modern-day Istanbul had over 100,000 Greek Orthodox Christians living there until the September pogroms of 1955, which were a series of state-sponsored anti-Greek mob attacks that scattered and terrorized native Greeks. The official death toll ranges between 15 to ov