Tombstone of Jean Bonkowski and the Maniadakis, Mérite, Simonovich and Zellich (Zellitch) families, Feriköy Catholic Cemetery, Istanbul, photo Adam Stańczyk, 2023, Public domain
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Inscription of the tombstone of Jean Bonkowski and the Maniadakis, Mérite, Simonovich and Zellich (Zellitch) families, Feriköy Catholic Cemetery, Istanbul, photo Adam Stańczyk, 2023, Public domain
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Fragment of the tombstone of Jean Bonkowski and the Maniadakis, Mérite, Simonovich and Zellich (Zellitch) families, Feriköy Catholic Cemetery in Istanbul, photo Adam Stańczyk, 2023, Public domain
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Tombstone of Jean Bonkowski and the Maniadakis, Mérite, Simonovich and Zellich (Zellitch) families

İstanbul | Turkey

Feriköy Catholic Cemetery in Istanbul

ID: NGR-017803-P

Tombstone of Jean Bonkowski and the Maniadakis, Mérite, Simonovich and Zellich (Zellitch) families

İstanbul | Turkey

Burial place marked by an angel figure on a two-stage plinth and moulded base. The figure on its own base. Angel with hands folded in prayer gesture, kneels on cushion. Wavy hair falling over the shoulders. The wings are visible. First step of pedestal covered with moulded panel. The second step of the plinth in the form of a cippus tapering upwards, covered on each side by a canopy with a gable closed by a full arch, framed on the sides by quarter-heads. The first and second steps of the plinth are filled with engraved inscriptions and oval panels with photographs. On the front of the first step of the pedestal, a rectangular plaque with a ritual inscription is fixed (1). In front of the tombstone 3 smaller plaques with engraved inscriptions. The whole is framed by a band. On the band a fence consisting of 7 posts in the form of pyramids connected with a chain.

Inscription:

1. JEAN BONKOWSKI / 1881-1942 / CROIX EN OR DE L’ORDRE POLONAIS / ADELE DU MÉRITE 1895 – 1974 / R. I. P. //.

Related persons:

Jean Bonkowski

Time of origin:

1890-1906

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 4 (Saint Joseph) Tomb number 9

Dimensions:

280 x 80 x 80 cm

Materials:

marble, lead, iron, porcelain / faience / porcelite