Preliminary remarks on the Late Ottoman Churches in Aintab Abstract Aintab was historically a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city. In the 19th cen- tury, missionary activities were added to its multi-layered tableau. Mainly Amer- ican Congregationalists but also Latin Catholics and some Anglicans settled in the city, building their religious, educational, and health institutions and giving birth to new syntheses in the architectural vocabulary. Meanwhile, local Chris- tians also, put new church projects into realization. During the 19 th century, seven new churches were designed and six were built in Aintab. However, the radical change in the ethnic and religious character of the social structure ater the War of Independence had negative impacts on the state of these buildings in the 20th century. Most of them were coniscated and then either used by the government for diferent functions or sold and passed into private proper- ty. his paper seeks to examine these church buildings and to trace their histories of construction and re-use/demolition through archival documents, newspapers and writings of the ex-inhabitants of the city. he paper presents the preliminary indings of ongoing research that focuses on the transformation of the city’s mul- ticultural character within its urban planning activities of the early 20th century. Keywords Late Ottoman Architecture, Aintab, Christian Religious Architecture. V. Gül CEPHANECİGİL gul.cephanecigil@itu.edu.tr • Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Received: February 2015 Final Acceptance: April 2015 ITU A|Z • Vol 12 No 2 • July 2015 • 131-143