Max Crandale
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...
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...
Byzantine heritage between 1204 and 1453
During the XIIth century the emperors of the Comnenus dynasty revived the strength of the Byzantine Empire. After the death of Manuel I in...