Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, is Senior Lecturer at Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK. She was previously Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey. She is the author of The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople (2015, I.B.Tauris).

An admirable and innovative study that opens new perspective on the history of Ottoman architecture and its culture. By focusing on the contribution of Armenians to the religious as well as secular architecture of East Anatolia, a region with multiple ethnicities and faiths and remote from the centre of power, the book reveals multi-layered aspects of artistic and cultural interaction. It is a pioneer work and as, the author herself says, this book is just the beginning of a field that is ripe for further investigations.

• List of Figures.Acknowledgements.Introduction.Chapter 1: Conversion as belonging- the case of Mardin mimarbasi (chief architect) Serkis Lole. Chapter 2: Mobility as belonging in Antep: the case of the Nazaretian House and the Sourp Asdvadzadzin Cathedral. Chapter 3. Urfa as a Holy Land: Merchants, Missionaries, and Visual Demonstrations of Belonging. Chapter 4: Diyarbakir Sourp Giragos Cathedral and Belonging as Antiquity. Chapter 5: The Bitlis Municipality and Government House: Rebuilding as Belonging. Chapter 6: Erzurum: Belonging as Church, State or Revolutionaries?Conclusion.Bibliography.

Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, is Senior Lecturer at Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK. She was previously Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey. She is the author of The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople (2015, I.B.Tauris).

An admirable and innovative study that opens new perspective on the history of Ottoman architecture and its culture. By focusing on the contribution of Armenians to the religious as well as secular architecture of East Anatolia, a region with multiple ethnicities and faiths and remote from the centre of power, the book reveals multi-layered aspects of artistic and cultural interaction. It is a pioneer work and as, the author herself says, this book is just the beginning of a field that is ripe for further investigations.

• List of Figures.Acknowledgements.Introduction.Chapter 1: Conversion as belonging- the case of Mardin mimarbasi (chief architect) Serkis Lole. Chapter 2: Mobility as belonging in Antep: the case of the Nazaretian House and the Sourp Asdvadzadzin Cathedral. Chapter 3. Urfa as a Holy Land: Merchants, Missionaries, and Visual Demonstrations of Belonging. Chapter 4: Diyarbakir Sourp Giragos Cathedral and Belonging as Antiquity. Chapter 5: The Bitlis Municipality and Government House: Rebuilding as Belonging. Chapter 6: Erzurum: Belonging as Church, State or Revolutionaries?Conclusion.Bibliography.