Chora Mosque

Kariye Camii

Built1001StyleByzantine architectureStatuspart of UNESCO World Heritage Site

Chora Mosque is a mosque in Fatih, İstanbul; 14th-century mosaics and frescoes — the last great flowering of Byzantine wall painting before the city fell.

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One nearby stopAyios Ioanis Prodromos Ayazması, Salma Tomruk117 m · MonumentOpen place Listen on the roadDrive ModeHear nearby place stories automatically while you drive.Start

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Location: 41.0311°N · 28.9392°E

14th-century mosaics and frescoes — the last great flowering of Byzantine wall painting before the city fell.

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The Chora Church, or Kariye Mosque, is a Byzantine building in the Edirnekapı neighbourhood of Istanbul's Fatih district, near the Theodosian Walls. Once the core of the Chora Monastery in the Eastern Roman era, it was converted into a mosque in the 16th century, declared a national monument in 1945 and made a museum in 1948. Famous worldwide for its outstanding Late Byzantine mosaics and frescoes, it was reopened for worship in 2024.