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A sacred icon of the Theotokos Hodegetria that was brought to Chora Church to protect Constantinople against the Ottoman invasion in 1453.

A sacred icon of the Theotokos Hodegetria that was brought to Chora Church to protect Constantinople against the Ottoman invasion in 1453.

Figure 6 Damaged, rebuilt and strengthened wall parts of the north-east view
Figure 7 Interior damages one of the small domes next to the main dome

Figure 6 Damaged, rebuilt and strengthened wall parts of the north-east view
Figure 7 Interior damages one of the small domes next to the main dome

Photo of Fatih Camii wall, showing contrast between lower courses of wall and fifteenth-century mosque wall above.

Photo of Byzantine elements in Fatih Camii structure, sowing the thickness of the wall, its irregular junction with the eighteenth-century mosque wall (visible in the left of picture) and the distance between the two wall lines.

Photo of contrast between older and newer walls in Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.

Photo of contrast between older and newer walls in Fatih Mosque, Istanbul.

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.

An outside perspective of the Ottoman Empire bath house exhibition for the Paris 1867 World Fair.