Hagia Sophia is a mosque, museum and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The c ...
The Blue Mosque, officially the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey ...
The Hippodrome of Constantinople, now known as Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, was a grand public arena primarily used for ch ...
The Obelisk of Theodosius is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC), first erected during the ...
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The c ...
Hagia Irene is an Eastern Orthodox church in the outer courtyard of Topkapı Palace, Istanbul. It is the city"s oldest c ...
The Topkapı Palace, or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in Istanbul, Turkey. From the 1460s to the completion of ...
The New Mosque (Yeni Cami), originally named Valide Sultan Mosque, is an Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul’s Eminönü di ...
The Istanbul Archaeological Museums is a complex of three museums: the Archaeology Museum, the Museum of the Ancient Orient, ...
The Galata Tower is a medieval Genoese tower in the Galata part of Istanbul, Turkey. Built as a watchtower at the highest poi ...
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over ...
The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissio ...
Kariye Mosque (originally Chora Church) is a former Christian church, now converted to a mosque (for the second time) in Ista ...
The Cistern of Philoxenos or Binbirdirek Cistern, is a man-made subterranean reservoir in Istanbul, situated between the Foru ...
The Rüstem Pasha Mosque, designed by Mimar Sinan and completed around 1563, is an Ottoman mosque in Istanbul’s Tahtakale n ...
The Nuruosmaniye Mosque, an 18th-century Ottoman mosque in Istanbul’s Çemberlitaş neighborhood, was added to Turkey’s T ...
The Camondo Stairs are 19th century stairs on Bankalar Caddesi (Banks Street) in the Galata quarter in Istanbul, Turkey. ...
Bayezid II Mosque (Beyazıt Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque in Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, near the ruins of ...
The Column of Constantine is a monumental column commemorating the dedication of Constantinople by Roman emperor Constantine ...
Ortaköy Mosque (officially Büyük Mecidiye Camii) is a striking 19th-century mosque located on the Bosphorus waterfront in ...
The Theodosius Cistern is one of many ancient cisterns of Constantinople that lie beneath the city of Istanbul. The cistern w ...
The Little Hagia Sophia mosque is a former Greek Orthodox church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople ( ...
Mahmut Pasha Mosque was commissioned by the Greek Mahmud Pasha, the grand vizier of Sultan Mehmet II, who converted to Islam ...
Dolmabahçe Palace, built between 1843 and 1856 by order of Sultan Abdulmejid I, replaced the outdated Topkapı Palace as the ...
Eyüp Sultan Mosque, located in Istanbul's Eyüp district, is one of the city’s most sacred Islamic sites. Built in 1458 by ...
Şehzade Mosque is a 16th-century Ottoman imperial mosque located in the district of Fatih, on the third hill of Istanbul, Tu ...
Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Fortress) is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, on a series of hills on t ...
The Fatih Mosque, built between 1463 and 1470 on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles, was severely damaged in the 176 ...
Saint Benoit is a Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul, Turkey. It is important for historical reasons because it is the oldest ...
The Maiden"s Tower (Kız Kulesi) is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, 200 m fr ...
The Aqueduct of Valens was a Roman aqueduct system built in the late 4th century AD, to supply Constantinople – the ca ...
Boukoleon was one of the Byzantine palaces in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). It was probably built during the reign ...
Arap Mosque was originally a Roman Catholic church erected in 1325 by the friars of the Dominican Order, near or above an ear ...
Construction of the Yeni Valide mosque in Üsküdar began in 1708 and was completed in 1710. It was built for sultan Ahmed II ...
The Pammakaristos Church is a Byzantine church in Istanbul. It was the last pre-Ottoman home of the Ecumenical Patriarchate b ...
Yedikule Fortress ('Fortress of the Seven Towers') is a historic fort in Istanbul’s Fatih district, built in 1458 ...
Çırağan Palace, located on the European shore of the Bosporus in Istanbul, was built between 1863 and 1867 by Sultan Abdul ...
The Laleli Mosque is an 18th-century Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Musta ...
Zeyrek Mosque, formerly the Monastery of the Pantokrator, is a large mosque in Istanbul’s Zeyrek district, overlooking the ...
The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus is a late 13th-century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the old city of Consta ...
The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque is located on the summit of the Sixth Hill near the highest point of Istanbul and is a prominent c ...
The Yavuz Selim Mosque is the second oldest extant imperial mosque in Istanbul. It was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Sul ...
Şemsi Pasha Mosque is a small but scenic Ottoman mosque in Üsküdar, Istanbul. Built in 1580 by famed architect Mimar Sinan ...
Church-Mosque of Vefa is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans in Istanbul. The complex re ...
The Church of St. Polyeuctus was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul) built by the noblewoman Anicia ...
Anadoluhisarı (Anatolian Fortress) is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosporus. The ...
Fenâri Îsâ Mosque was made of two former Eastern Orthodox churches. In 908, the Byzantine admiral Constantine Lips inaugu ...
Eski Imaret Mosque (Eski Imaret Camii) is a former Byzantine church in Fatih, Istanbul, traditionally identified as the Monas ...
Gül Mosque (Gül Camii, meaning 'Rose Mosque') in Istanbul, Turkey, is a former Byzantine church later converted b ...
Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque is a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, Turkey, converted into a mosque between 1486 and 1491 by ...
The Walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinop ...
Selimiye Barracks is a Turkish Army barracks on the Asian side of Istanbul. It was originally built in 1800 by Sultan Selim I ...