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Archaeology Museum Istanbul

Archaeology Museum Istanbul

Istanbul Archaeology Museum is the first institution in Istanbul and Turkey designed as a museum. It is also marked as one of the ten most important world-class museums designed and used as a dedicated museum building. In order to[...]
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Istanbul Old City Walls

Istanbul Old City Walls

Istanbul’s first city walls were built to protect the acropolis, placed where Topkapi Palace is today. The second set was established by the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus in 203 and were outside the Greek walls by some 300[...]
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Suleymaniye Mosque Istanbul

Suleymaniye Mosque Istanbul

Suleymaniye Mosque surrounded by Golden Gorn is located in one of Istanbul’s seven hills. The mosque having extraordinary architectural elegance was built at Sultan Suleiman’s request (Suleiman the magnificent) in 1550[...]
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Eyup Sultan Mosque & Ayyub Al-Ansari Tomb

Eyup Sultan Mosque & Ayyub Al-Ansari Tomb

Following by the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, It was the first Mosque constructed by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1458. The Eyup Sultan Mosque is built near the Golden Horn Bay in Eyup District of Istanbul. But most interesting[...]
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Kalenderhane Mosque Istanbul

Kalenderhane Mosque Istanbul

Located on 16th March Martyrs Street (16 Mart Sehitler Caddesi in Turkish) near the Girl’s Dormitory in Vezneciler, city of Istanbul, that magnificent structure was firstly an Orthodox Eastern Church well known as Theotokos[...]
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