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The interior of the Stoudios Monastery after it was re-adapted as the Imrahor Mosque under Ottoman rule.
The exterior of the Stoudios Monastery-turned-Imrahor Mosque.
A map of the city of Istanbul in 1882; the Imrahor Mosque is situated in the southwest region of the map a short distance from the shore.
A map of the city of Istanbul in 1922; the Imrahor Mosque is situated in the southwest region of the map a short distance from the shore.
The Stoudios Monastery had long existed in a ruined state, neglected by the city.
An illuminated manuscript from a Byzantine book, representative of what the Stoudios Monastery was renowned for producing.
Another illuminated manuscript prepared in the Byzantine era.
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.
The Turkish government has taken steps in recent years to refurbish the desolate monastery and re-convert it into a public mosque.