Place to see: Edirnekapı, Istanbul, Turkey

Red, white, and blue

Red, white, and blue

While the mosaics of the Kariye Müzesi are justly famous, buildings in the surrounding Edirnekapi neighborhood are adorned in a humbler, but no less colorful, manner.

About this place:

A residential neighborhood in western Istanbul, best known as home to the Kariye Müzesi, a Byzantine church full of well-preserved mosaics and frescoes.

Istanbul, TR

Discovered by Jennifer Hattam
on 7 January 2008.
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