Smiling face of multiculturalism. Like many Mediterranean port cities, Izmir is a city of ethnic groups. 17-19. century, a very rich cultural mosaic. With the Levantine, Jewish and Christian identities coming from the past, you come across the traces of multi-religious and multicultural tolerance. With the increasing separation from the eve of the First World War and the exchange in 1924, the diversity broke down and the churches lost their community together with the immigration after them. It is located in the Basmane neighborhood where the trade, industry and residential districts are at the intersection of Muslim, Jewish and Christian neighborhoods. One of the first bishops of Smyrna. St. Vukolos Church, built in the name of Boukolos (Saint Vukolos, Aziz Ayavukla), is a work of the period when the Greek population is dense. The Holy Book The church of Ayavukla, one of the churches mentioned in the Bible, was built as a Greek church. It is known that Sultan Abdülaziz gave a large amount of gold to be used in the construction of the Catholic Church in 1863. The construction began in 1862 and was put into service in 1874.