Hagia Sophia
After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Ahmed converted the city's Christian church to a mosque, removing or plastering over Christian icons and adding minarets a mihrab and other elements characteristic of Muslim mosques. The mosque was then used as Istanbul’s primary place of prayer for several decades until the completion of the Blue Mosque.
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Type: Restaurant
Turkish chef, Nusret Gökçe, turned his Turkish-based steakhouse, Nusr-et, into an international restaurant dyn …
Type: Tourist Attraction, Turkish Bath (Hamman)
Cağaloğlu Hamam is a historic Turkish bathhouse located in the Istanbul district of Fatih, renowned for its st …
Type: Tourist Attraction
The Basilica Cistern is one of several hundred ancient cisterns lying beneath the city of Istanbul. It was bui …
Type: Museum, Tourist Attraction
There of dozens of Byzantine era cisterns located throughout Istanbul’s ancient city’s foundations but the lar …
Type: Museum, Tourist Attraction
Six years after the conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Ahmed II constructed a palace as his new personal resid …
Type: Shopping Spot, Tourist Attraction
The historic building at this location used to serve as a busy textiles and spice bazaar. The recently remodel …
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