The Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist, also known simply as St. John's, is located in İzmir, Turkey, in the quarter of Alsancak.^[1]

John mentions Smyrna, the modern İzmir, in Revelations 2:8-11 and one of his disciples, Polycarp, who is depicted in one of the stained glass windows of the church^[2] became bishop of Smyrna. The church shares its name with the catholic cathedral of İzmir.

The church was built in 1898-1899.^[3][4] St John's was consecrated by Bishop Charles Sandford (Bishop of Gibraltar) on 7 April 1902. However, the first Church of England chaplain (Thomas Curtys) was posted to Smyrna in 1636^[5] and there has been a constant presence of an Anglican chaplain in the city ever since.

On 22 March 1911, William Collins, the Bishop of Gibraltar, died on board the SS Saghalien en route from Constantinople to Smyrna and was subsequently buried in the church.^[6]

The New Zealander Charles Dobson (1886-1930) was Chaplain of St. John's during the Great fire of Smyrna in 1922; he escaped the burning city with his wife and two small daughters and later became a key witness in the trial about the origins of the fire.^[7]

The current chaplain is The Revd James Buxton, formerly Dean of Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was appointed as Chaplain of St. John’s İzmir and Mission to Seafarers Port Chaplain to İzmir on 18 September 2017.^[8]

The church was built in a neo-gothic architectural style. The architect was Mr S. Watkins, Engineer of the Ottoman Railway Company, a British company which was at that time constructing a railway line from Smyrna to Aydin. The floor of the church is supported by pieces of railway line placed vertically in the crypt.

The Bishop Collins Memorial Hall was erected in 1913 and is used as a multi-purpose facility. The Sunday School meets in the hall and the hall and kitchen are used every Sunday for after service fellowship and tea time, as well as for various meetings and events. The church office is next to the fellowship hall. A vicarage was built next to the church in 1911 and is now leased to the British Government for use as the Consulate.

St. John's is liturgically Anglo-Catholic by tradition with the use of vestments, holy water and incense.

• William Collins (bishop) (1867–1911), the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar

• Bishop Collins Memorial Hall
• The grave of William Edward Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar
• One of the stained glass windows in the church
• A view of the church pulpit
• The baptismal font, in the shape of a seashell
• The altar, beneath stained glass windows
• The baptismal font of the church
• The altar crucifix
• Angel Lectern
• The grave epitaph of William Edward Collins, Bishop of Gibraltar