Παναγία Μπελιγραδίου at Istanbul

After the Turkish conquest of Belgrade, on August 1521, the whole Serbian citizenship was displaced to Istanbul and its vicinity and took with them the greatest treasures of his church. It is the mosaic icon of the Virgin with Child, which is kept today at the Patriarchal church of Saint George on Phanar, in the south aisle. The Belgrade history of this icon can be reconstructed through the older written sources. The oldest mention of this icon is found in the Vienna Illuminated Chronicle, in the part which describes the Byzantine-Hungarian battles around Belgrade at 1071-72. It was already believed in the middle of the 15th century that this icon was work of apostle Luke and a half of the century later (1508), this was confirmed by metropolitan of Belgrade, Theophanes.