Carl Eduard Gesell

In addition, he won orders from abroad and exported organs to Buenos Aires and Constantinople, now Istanbul.

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Gesell organ in the Evangelical Church of the Holy Cross in Istanbul, the German-speaking congregation in Turkey published a commemorative publication in 2004.

At the beginning of this year, the local embassy councillor Max von Thielmann [de], who was delighted by the beautiful playing of organist Lange on the harmonium that had accompanied the church service singing until then, suggested to the congregation that they collect money for an organ.

[3]In 1964/65, the organ was redesigned by Werner Bosch and in the 2000s the congregation turned to the builder's workshop Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau [de] to have it overhauled.

Schuke was not aware of the organ's whereabouts until that time; the instrument was listed in the catalogue of works, but with the note "receipt unknown".