It was a beautiful church with fabulous paintings on wall and roof For Turkish people and who has ID card, it was for free and for foreigner they should pay

Orhan Ö.

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sameco-cccr

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March 2026.That was my find! Yes, not Hagia Sophia, which impresses with its size, but a miracle of the Byzantine era, a well-preserved Byzantine church. You have to pay (20 euros per nose) and the toilet is paid. It's better to come in the morning, there are no people at all, and the feeling of your contact with history will be 100%. The mosaic has been completely preserved in some places and it is enough to understand how the biblical stories from the life of the Virgin Mary to the miracles of Jesus are conveyed.. Each plot is an animation of the story.Yes, this is the preserved original Byzantine decoration, and you can get an idea of what the Byzantine temple really looked like. The monastery of Khora (also known as the Kariye Mosque).The service is now going on like in a mosque.

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