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In 1955 intercommunal strife in cyprus and mounting tension between Greece and Turkey led to anti-Greek rioting in Istanbul ( constantinople ). The situation worsened: from 6 September demonstrations developed into a pogrom against Greeks across the city. The Orthodox church in particular was targeted, and of forty-five churches and thirty chapels only five remained unscathed after a few days of rioting. Greek business premises, homes, libraries, colleges and schools were gutted. Inestimable damage was inflicted on historic buildings, large numbers of icons were destroyed and cemeteries were vandalized. A famous icon, Our Lady of the Mongols, disappeared and the zoodochos Pege monastery was sacked. The September events represent the final act in the decline of the Constanti-nopolitan Greek community. Only fifteen churches were fully restored over the next decade or so. The last Greek printing houses were closed in the early 1960s, the Megale tou Genous Schole of the Phanar and the celebrated Halki Theological Academy (Heybeliada) in 1971. By 1980 it was calculated that there were more Constantinopolitan Greeks in Glyphada, a single suburb of Athens, than in the ancient Byzantine capital. Nevertheless, in 1987, the Orthodox church was permitted to rebuild a wing of the patriarchate complex that was destroyed in 1941. ( 1991 ), Anthologio tes Konstantinoupolis . Athens : Nea ... log in or subscribe to read full text