The centre of life for the ordinary citizen of Constantinople. The churches are more modest than those around the major palaces near Aya Sofya. The intact ones are the marble-lined Kalenderhane, the doll’s house of Bodrum Camii and the unreconstructed, dirty-old-man of Constantinople churches, Vefa Camii. The rest have disappeared under development, especially of the ever-metastasising Istanbul University. It may have been better if the remains of the massive Church of St Polyeuktos had never resurfaced.
Vefa Camii/Kilise Camii/Molla Gürani Camii/Church of St Theodore
Bodrum Camii/Church of the Myrelaion/Myrrhelaion
Kalenderhane/The Church of St Saviour Kataleptos
Church of St Polyeuktos
The Beyazit Churches
Balaban Ağa Mescidi
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople/Surp Asvadzadzin Patriarchal Church
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Manastir Mescidi/Mustafa Çavuş Mescidi
Monastery of Constantine Lips/Fenari Isa Camii/Church of the Panachrantos
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The real stars are of course the Kariye and the Fethiye museums. Kariye, in particular, is astonishing. However, the Byzantine history of the area keeps on sticking less spectacular bits of stonework above the ground. There is a certain charm in having someone take you into their home or workplace and show you a thousand-year-old piece of a past civilisation.
Boğdan Sarayı
Church of St John the Baptist in Trullo/Ahmet Paşa Mescidi
Kariye Camii/Church of St Saviour in Chora
Fethiye Camii/Church of the Virgin Pammakaristos/Church of the Theotokos Pammakaristos
Kefeli Mescidi/Monastery of the Prodomos in Petra/Monastery of Manuel (St Nicholas)
Odalar Camii/Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Kasım Ağa Mescidi
Yavuz Sultan Selim Camii / Monastery of Christos Pantepoptes
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