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31-Mar-2016 Tina Manley

Kariye Museum

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The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora is a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church preserved as a museum in the Edirnekapı neighborhood of Istanbul. In the 16th century, during the Ottoman era, the church was converted into a mosque; it became a museum in 1948. The interior of the building is covered with some of the oldest and finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes; they were uncovered and restored after the building was secularized and turned into a museum.

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