Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of hundreds of Byzantine underground cisterns beneath Istanbul, built in the 6th…
Istanbul: 33 heritage places documented by Cultural Heritage Online, street by street — what each one is, where it is, and how to see it.
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of hundreds of Byzantine underground cisterns beneath Istanbul, built in the 6th…
The only mosque in Istanbul with six minarets, its 20,000 Iznik tiles and cascading domes face Hagia Sophia…
Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul famous for its six minarets and interior walls decorated with thousands of blue…
Built by Sultan Abdülaziz on the Bosphorus shore in 1867, destroyed by fire in 1910, and restored as…
A 19th-century Ottoman imperial palace on Istanbul's Bosporus shore, serving as the empire's administrative center from 1853 to…
An Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district, the Ertuğrul Tekke integrates a dervish lodge, guest house, mausoleum,…
A masterpiece of Byzantine engineering completed in 537, Hagia Sophia's revolutionary pendentive dome created the world's largest interior…
Cathedral, mosque, museum and mosque again: Hagia Sophia's sixth-century dome, raised on pioneering pendentives, shaped Ottoman and later…
The castle on the Bosphorus where Asia's railways began - Germany's Baghdad-line gift to the Sultan, awaiting its…
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