KARİYE KİLİSESİ11 viewsKariye museum or the Church of St. Saviour in Chora is the most interesting Byzantine church in Istanbul, after the Haghia Sophia that is. For that reason I gave it a gallery of it’s own. It contains both frescoes and mosaics (1315-1321), restored by the Byzantine Institute of America. Chora means “in the country”, because the monastery it was attached to stood outside the Constantian walls, later when the Theodosian walls were erected the name remained. Symbolicaly the name received the implication of referring to “Christ”, him being “the land of the Living”. Adapted from Sumner-Boyd and Freely; Strolling through Istanbul, a very good book.
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