St Saviour in Chora is a small chapel in Istanbul, Turkey which has some of the best Byzantine mosaics such as this one of St. Paul.

This mural from Hagia Sophia shows Jesus in the traditional pose of Christ Pantocrator (“Almighty” or “All-powerful”). This mosaic was covered with plaster for many years from the fall of Isatnbul in [...]

I was asked recently about my favorite buildings in the world and Hagia Sophia in old Istanbul has to be on that list. It was built in the 800s to replace an [...]

This photographer in the Ortakoy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey seems very intent on getting a shot of a pigeon. She seems to have quite a few of these birds to chose from [...]

Only slightly off the beaten path from the tourist throngs at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is the small church (now a museum) of St Saviour in Chora. The name means St [...]

This beautiful view of the Bosporus bridge with a small mosque in the foreground is used for many Turkey travel posters. This view is from the town of Ortaköy on the outskirts [...]

One of my favorite sites for taking pictures in Istanbul is the colorful Spice Bazaar. The Grand Bazaar has more drama as you try and navigate its corridors without buying a carpet [...]

One of the oddest sites in Istanbul is an underground cistern built by the Romans but not discovered by the Turks until after they had held the city for a hundred years. [...]

There was a lot of controversy around the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul. It was not that people did not like the beauty of this mosque. The controversy was [...]

This trolley in Istanbul runs the length of Istiklal Caddesi (street) which is a pedestrian street in Beyoğlu. Beyoğlu is an area of the city just north of the Golden Horn which [...]