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The Imrahor Mosque, years after the 1894 earthquake that was responsible for causing its roof to cave, in 1904.
Image of the debris that littered Istanbullu streets following the devastating earthquake of 1894.
The interior garden of the Church of St. John the Baptist, the core building of the Stoudios Monastery and only one still intact from the destruction suffered in the twentieth century.
The Turkish government has taken steps in recent years to refurbish the desolate monastery and re-convert it into a public mosque.
Though there exist few visual records of what the interior of the Stoudios Monastery, this image of a scriptorium is reminiscent of where Studite monks created the famed manuscripts.
Another illuminated manuscript prepared in the Byzantine era.
An illuminated manuscript from a Byzantine book, representative of what the Stoudios Monastery was renowned for producing.
The Stoudios Monastery had long existed in a ruined state, neglected by the city.