Istanbul Gallery

Black Sea: Bosphorus and Dardanelles, c1914, (c1920). Creator: John Bartholomew & Son

Black Sea: Bosphorus and Dardanelles, c1914, (c1920). Map of the Black Sea and parts of surrounding countries at the start of the First World War, showing Russia and the Crimea, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, with insets of the coast at Gallipoli and Constantinople (Istanbul). From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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Painting on cupola, Chora Church, Constantinople [Istanbul, Turkey], (1928). Creator: Unknown

Painting on cupola, Chora Church, Constantinople [Istanbul, Turkey], (1928). About 1320...Painting on cupola of the annexe church...The Kahrijedjami (Chora Church) was rebuilt by Maria Dukaena, the mother-in-law of Alexios [I Komnenos] (d. 1118)'. After Alexander Rudell. Plate XLII, fig 97, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd. Berlin, 1928]

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Interior of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Interior of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, 19th century. View of carved wooden minbar and Islamic texts inside the building while it was a mosque. Built in the 6th century by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, the Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya) was intended to be the greatest church in Christendom. It remained the centre of the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church until 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. It was then converted into a mosque, which it remained until secularised and turned into a museum by order of Kemal Ataturk in 1934

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