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Home / Regional / Middle East / Turkey / Provinces / Istanbul / Arts and Entertainment / Architecture
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- Beyazit Tower - Deniz Kaya's illustrated article on the stone firemen's watch tower in Istanbul, built in 1828. From Mersina.
www.mersina.com/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/beyazit_tower.html
- Computer Model of the Hagia Sophia - Project by Princeton University in 1996. Technical details of producing the model, some photographs.
www.princeton.edu/~asce/const_95/const.html
- Fener and Balat Row Houses - A typological study by Serhat Cetinturk of the facades of houses in this historic district of Istanbul, using maps, drawings and photographs from the archive of the Planning Department of Mimar Sinan University.
www.angelfire.com/art2/fener_balat
- Hagia Sophia - Great Buildings Online provide photographs, 3D model, choice quotations and bibliography of the Byzantine masterpiece designed by Isidoros and Anthemios at Istanbul, Turkey, 532-7.
www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Hagia_Sophia.html
- Mansions on the Water - Yalis of Istanbul - An illustrated article by Chris Hellier in Mersina on the grand houses on the Bosphorus shore, built by the former Ottoman elite.
www.mersina.com/lib/yali/index.html
- On the Great Church - Description by Procopius in 537 of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Taken from the Lethabv/Swainson translation of De Aedificiis.
gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/procopius.stm
- The Suleymaniye Mosque: Beyond Inspiration - Illustrated article by Alia F. Hasan from Suite101 comparing and contrasting this magnificent mosque with its inspiration the Hagia Sophia.
www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4205/20882
- Topkapi Palace - Explore Turkey provides an illustrated history and tour of the splendid palace from which the Ottoman Empire was ruled for centuries.
www.exploreturkey.com/exptur.phtml?id=274
- Byzantium1200 - Project aiming to create computer reconstructions of the Byzantine monuments in Istanbul in 1200 AD.
byzantium1200.org
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