Restoration of the Endürlük Church in Talas Kayseri

In our country which has been a host for many civilizations, richness in historical and cultural aspects shows itself through works that are still extant. Kayseri and its environment have been a city in which Greeks, Armenians and Muslims lived together up to twentieth century. In accordance with Treaty of Lausanne Greek people in Endürlük went to Greece and Turkish people in Greece were ensconced to this area. Endürlük Church has been exerting an effort to stand despite negligence and unconscious destruction. Endürlük Church has been chosen as a study subject in order to prepare data which shall provide with sustainable conservation of the building by means of preventing this dereliction, dilapidation and destruction. In the scope of the Thesis documentation and restitution study oriented towards the preservation of Endürlük Church, which is a document expressing a period?s belief and its form and the style of building, has been made; consequently the restoration Project was prepared taking these information and documents as base. It is also expected that original findings and suggestions obtained, relating to the church, which is the subject of the Thesis, shall constitute a data for the restoration studies of similar church buildings that are changed and deformed.