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Architect aims to rebuild a church and help restore a quake-hit Turkish city's multicultural past
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Workers clear rubble and salvage stones from the ruins of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, damaged in the 2023 earthquake, in the city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. - photo by AP Photo/Murat Kocabas
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown's multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago will help locals reconnect to their city. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023, and another hours later were among Turkey’s worst disasters.