International audienceThis article will trace from a diachronic perspective the different steps towards the construction and heritagisation of the House of Mary [Meryem Ana Evi], the presumed location of her Assumption, discovered in the late XIXth century near Ephesus. Within a few years, it had become a local center of pilgrimage, promoted by French Catholic missionaries from Izmir, and later recognized as a holy place by Rome. Despite its extinction due to the First World War and the establishment of the Kemalist Republic, a particular focus will be on the period in the 1950s when the site was nationalized by the Turkish state. While its Christian heritage has often been discredited, the House of the Virgin has precociously benefited fro...