Istanbul / St. Mary of the Mongols
St. Mary of the Mongols is the last remaining Byzantine church of Constantinople that was never converted into a mosque. Tradition holds that Sultan Mehmed II endowed the church to the mother…
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Byzantine Architecture
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Istanbul / Kariye Müzesi
One of the highlights of my life in Istanbul was visiting the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church tucked in the neighbourhood of…
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Istanbul / Inside the Hagia Sophia
Dedicated on December 26th, 537 by the emperor Justinian, the great church of Haghia Sophia was the religious centre of the Byzantine Empire for nine hundred years. After the Turkish…
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