St. Basil's Church, Tirilye

St. Basil's Church
Basic information
Location	Tirilye, Bursa, Türkiye
Affiliation	Christianity
Architectural type	Church

The St. Basil's Church (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος, Agios Vasileios) is a former Greek Orthodox church in Tirilye, known as the Tirilye Cultural Center in the area today.

The complex, which was constructed in Tirilye in 1878 as a Greek school, is composed a church, The Dar-ül Eytam School, which opens to the Stone School (being used for the workshops for carpentry and iron works for 400 students), and the “Dündar House", used as a mess house. The church had three vertical lines similar to all other churches(Vertical lines are separated with columns), but the abscissa of the church was demolished for creating a new entrance, causing the upper part of the entrance to be higher than the sides. The Church building was used as a mess hall until the school was closed in September 1927. Due to its function it was called “mess hall” until its restoration, which turned the building into Faruk Çelik Cultural Center. Upon the request of the Greek Culture Delegation a ceremony was held in this building during the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I to Tirilye on July 1, 2009.