Chora Church Museum
The building, known today known as the Kariye (Chora) Museum, was built on the site of the Chora Monastery. “Chora” means “outside the city”...
Discovering the Greek side of Istanbul
That Istanbul is a real treasure chest for history, art and architecture freaks is no secret. Its colorful mosaic of historical city structures --...
Thomas Whittemore has been chipping away plaster walls off for 14 years.
From Time - Jan. 27, 1947, Glory be to God, who hath thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work; 1 have...
The Deisis, Supplication, Mother of God.
Walk through the door of the Chora Monastery Museum and you step back in time. One-thousand-four-hundred-seventy-three years, to be exact, when Chora was one...
Cerrahpasa a forgotten corner of old Istanbul
In a city the size of İstanbul it's hardly surprising that people can live here for decades and still not have visited every part...