The end of the Ramadan. A month of fasting in the Muslim calendar is over. I made it to the Sultanahmet square to photograph the mahyas of the blue mosque on its last day! Mahya, the message written in lights and strung between 2 minarets or between...
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The dome of Hagia Sophia. During the extensive restoration carried out by Fossatti Brothers in the mid 1800s, the calligrapher Kazasker Izzet Efendi decorated the dome with the verse from Qur'an "In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful,...
This new bridge connecting both sides of the Golden Horn, Haliç, was photographed by Owen Williams, a correspondent for National Geographic magazine. Considered as one of the pioneers of travel photography, Williams was lucky enough to be often at the right...
A rare photo of Ayasofya Mosque depicting the last prayer of muslims held. A gem from the archive of Othmar Pferschy, who hopped on the Orient Express to come to Constantinople and witnessed the drastic transformation of the new Republic and Istanbul...
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