GREEK ORTHODOX ORPHANAGE, EUROPE'S LARGEST WOODEN BUILDING, AWAITS SALVATION OFF ISTANBUL ISTANBUL - Agence France-Presse - May 28, 2018 Looking up at the giant wooden edifice looming over him, Erol Baytaş shakes his head. “I don’t think it will survive another winter,” he says, broken tiles and boards strewn at his feet. Built at the end of the 19th century on an island off Istanbul, this unique six-storey structure once served as a home for Greek Orthodox orphans until it was shut down in the early 1960s. And more than five decades later, the now dilapidated Prinkipo Greek Orthodox orphanage is at risk of collapse...... Situated atop a hill on Büyükada, one of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara, it is about 90 minutes by ferry from central Istanbul. Originally conceived as a luxury casino hotel, the building was commissioned by the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, the travel firm which historically operated the Orient Express. The aim was to att...