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Istanbul, Jan '16

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Across the Golden Horn at sunset.
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Across the Golden Horn at sunset.

  • Across the Golden Horn at sunset.
  • Across the Golden Horn in the morning.
  • Basilica Cistern - A 1500-year-old water storage system from the Byzantine Empire.
  • An intentionally upside-down medusa head in the Basilica Cistern.
  • Inside the Hagia Sofia.
  • The spot in the Hagia Sofia where Byzantine emperors were crowned.
  • A view of the Blue Mosque from the Hagia Sofia.
  • This is the 3rd Hagia Sofia, rebuilt by Emperor Justinian in 532 after the previous one burned down in the Nika riots.
  • The Hagia Sofia was converted to a mosque after the Ottoman Turks conqured Constantinople. It was converted to a museum in 1931.
  • The Blue Mosque is actually called the Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Turkey.
  • We call it the Blue Mosque because of the blue tiles inside.
  • The inside of the BLue Mosque.
  • The Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus, also called the "Little Hagia Sofia". It was also converted to a Mosque.
  • Part of a tile mosaic from the former Great Palace of the Byzantine empire. Most of the palace is gone, but these mosaics were uncovered by archaeologists in 1931.
  • Inside Sulimanyie Mosque.
  • Galata Tower across the Golden Horn, built in 1348.
  • Galata was a Genoese colony across from Constantinople.
  • Galata Tower is one of the most visible landmarks in Istanbul.
  • The Imperial Hall in Topkapi Palace, the seat of government for the Ottoman Empire from 1465-1856.
  • Cool tortise-shell and mother-of-perl doors in Topkapi Palace.
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