Istanbul, Chora-Kariye Ekkllesia 11th cent - A History of Romanesque Architecture 300 - 1300 (sitios de interés)

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Constantinople-Istanbul
Chora Ekkllesia - Kariye Camii Present building: 11th cent




Text and photo from Archnet.org

The Kariye Museum, formerly the Church of the Monastery in the Chora, was outside the city prior to the building of the Theodosian walls, hence its Greek name Chora Ekklesia, Church in the Country.
Restored after an earthquake in 557, the basilica was rebuilt in its current Greek-cross plan in the 11th century. Additions and renovations (1316-1321) were sponsored by Theodore Metochites, a scholar and prime minister under Andronicus II. One of the last churches built before the Fall of Constantinople (1453).
Its importance does not lie as much with its architecture but in the mosaics and frescoes which grace its interior and that of the attached parekklesion.
After it was declared a museum, the Byzantine Institute of Washington D.C. and the Dumbarton Oaks Center of Byzantine Studies restored it in 1948.
My photographs (before digital cameras) were taken free-hand.



and some of its mosaics: The Emperor presenting the church



Christ's Baptism



Christ Pantocrator in the dome




Interior photos RWFG

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