Archive for the ‘Istanbul City Guide’ Category
Istanbul - Blue Mosque Sultanahmet
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Istanbul - Grand Bazaar
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Istanbul - Aqueducts
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Museum Mahmut I Library
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Hagia Sophia was a Eastern Orthodox abbey at Byzantine aeon which completed in 537. It aswell accepted as the Ayasofya Architecture and Abbey of Holy Wisdom. It was adapted to a abbey at Ottoman aeon afterwards Fatih Sultan Mehmed II baffled Constantinople in 29 May 1453. Afterwards 1935, it was adapted into a museum. Hagia Sophia is neighbour to Topkapı Palace and Blue Abbey (Sultanahmet Camii) in Istanbul.
Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Museum
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Hagia Sophia was a Eastern Orthodox abbey at Byzantine aeon which completed in 537. It aswell accepted as the Ayasofya Architecture and Abbey of Holy Wisdom. It was adapted to a abbey at Ottoman aeon afterwards Fatih Sultan Mehmed II baffled Constantinople in 29 May 1453. Afterwards 1935, it was adapted into a museum. Hagia Sophia is neighbour to Topkapı Palace and Blue Abbey (Sultanahmet Camii) in istanbul.
Istanbul - Fethiye Museum (Pammakaristos)
Sunday, May 4th, 2008We have two diffirent source about fethiye museum.
Fethiye Abbey is amid abreast Carsamba adjacency of Fatih district. It was originally a Byzantine church, congenital on the fifth acropolis of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in the alpha of 12th aeon and afresh rebuilt in the 13th aeon by Michael Glabas Ducas Tarchaniotes, nephew of the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologos. Glabas was active in the parakkleison (side corridor) committed to Christ, which was added to the architecture in 1315 by his wife Maria in the anamnesis of her husband. After her death, Maria was aswell active in this funerary chapel.
Istanbul - Caria Museum
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Chora Abbey is advised to be one of the a lot of admirable examples of a Byzantine church.[1] The abbey is anchored in the western, Edirnekapı commune of Istanbul. In the 16th century, the abbey was adapted into a abbey by the Ottoman rulers, and it became a secularised architecture in 1948. The autogenous of the architecture is covered with accomplished mosaics and frescoes.
Istanbul - Archeology Museum
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Istanbul Archeology Museums, which were accustomed as Muze-i Humayun (Empire Museum) by the acclaimed artisan and architecture administrator Osman Hamdi Bey at the end of the 19th century, were opened to accessible on June 13, 1891. Besides its accent as the ‘first Turkish museum’, it has an accent and specialty getting one of the architecture barrio that are complete as a Architecture in the World. Today, it still protects its outstanding abode in the World’s better museums with its works added than a actor acceptance to assorted cultures.
In the architecture collections, there are affluent and actual important works of art acceptance to assorted civilizations from the regions from Balkans to Africa, from Anatolia and Mesopotamia to Arab Peninsula and Afghanistan that were in the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
Istanbul - Anadolu Hisari
Monday, April 28th, 2008 
Anadolu Hisari
The alcazar accoutrement seven acre breadth and giving its name to the area was congenital by Sultan Beyazid I (Yildirim) as the foreground aggressive base of Ottoman in 1395. The architecture was added ‘Hisarpence’, armory and some residental barrio by Mehmed II. In 1928 some adjustment works were fabricated by kandilli Municipality. Some aliment were fabricated by Ministry of Culture in 1991-1993. Today Anadolu Hisari is aural borders of Beykoz Municipality. There is no adaptable cultural assets in the castle. It has not been opened for visits.