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An unassuming building and long lines mark the surface level location of the Basilica Cistern
Inside the Basilica Cistern after it has been cleaned for modern use, with its magnificent columns, modern lighting, and pathways.
One can see the paths that were made, strictly for tourists, in addition to the lighting to better view the cistern.
What Petrus Gyllius might have seen with the fish living in the Cistern Basilica
A drawing showing the Tokapi Palace, noted with a "1," and the Hagia Sophia, noted with a "3," both of which the Basilica Cistern supplied during the beginning of Ottoman control
An engraving of the Basilica Cistern by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, from his “A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture”