Kariye Mosque Istanbul: Chora Church and Its Byzantine Mosaics
Kariye Mosque in Istanbul, historically known as the Chora Church, is one of the city’s most important surviving monuments of Byzantine art. Located near Edirnekapi in Istanbul’s historic Fatih district, the building is particularly famous for its extraordinary 14th-century mosaics and frescoes, which illustrate scenes from the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary as […]