Giacobbe Giusti, Chora Church

Front view of Chora Church

The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora (Greek: Ἐκκλησία τοῦ Ἁγίου Σωτῆρος ἐν τῇ Χώρᾳ, Turkish: Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii, Kariye Kilisesi) is a medieval ByzantineGreek Orthodox church preserved as the Chora Museum in the Edirnekapı neighborhood of Istanbul.^[1] The neighborhood is situated in the western part of the municipality (belediye) of the Fatihdistrict. In the 16th century, during the Ottoman era, the church was converted into a mosque; it became a museum in 1948. The interior of the building is covered with some of the oldest and finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes; they were uncovered and restored after the building was secularized and turned into a museum.

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