PREFACE. Claudio Monge. PART ONE. STATUS: LEGALITY AND CONFLICT. 1. “I shall not take their churches and turn them into mosques”: The Legal Status of Catholic Churches in Ottoman Galata as Prescribed by the ʿAhdnāmes. Radu Dipratu 2. An Endless Housing Dispute: Catholic - Muslim Conflict around the Yeni Valide and Arab Mosques in Galata (1693-1713). Kenan Yıldız PART TWO. PEOPLE: IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION AND RELATIONS. 3.  From Master to Minority: the Genoese of Pera-Galata across the Byzantine-Ottoman Boundary. Padraic Rohan 4. The Latin Vekil and the Vartaliti Family: Local Representation, Intermediary Work and Family Interests in Ottoman Istanbul (1844-1923). Gabriel Doyle 5. Patriarch Maksīmūs Maẓlūm’s Reverse Missionary Entreprise during the Tanẓīmāt Period: Bringing the Greek Catholics back into the Greek Rite. Anaïs Massot PART THREE. CHURCHES: FOUNDATION AND TRANSFORMATION. 6. Latin, Armenian, Ottoman: Shared Space and Material Culture in the Catholic Churches of Pera and Galata. Paolo Girardelli 7. Notre-Dame Du Rosaire: Insights into the Construction and Contestations of the First Dominican Church of the post-Tanẓīmāt Period. Vanessa R. de Obaldía PART FOUR. EDUCATION: NATIONALISM AND MISSION. 8. Italian Latin Catholics in late Ottoman Istanbul: Transnational Culture and National Education. Francesco Pongiluppi 9. The Inception and Development of the Educational Activities of the Salesian Congregation in Istanbul during the late               Ottoman Period. Buğra Poyraz CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES