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Divided by gender, Cemberlitas has two large bathing rooms. Pictured above is the male bathing quarters.

A 1853 map of Divanyolou street, a then congested road that ran through some of the city's most historic and notable sites. The Çemberlitas Bath is starred.

A 1922 map of Divanyolu street following the road expansion commission project. The Çemberlitas Bath location is starred.

Blue and white Chinese plate in the Topkapi collection. Ch'i-lin motif. 14th century.

A mosaic in the Chora Church that shows the anastasis, or resurrection of Christ.

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.

A mosaic of Jesus Christ, to whom Chora Church was dedicated.

The oldest known map of Constantinople, printed on page 74 of manuscript. Contains the Church of the Holy Apostles listed as "s[an]ctorum apostolorum."

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.