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Ribbed dome on a ring of windows above seraph mosaics, gold calligraphic roundels and low chandeliers over green carpet.

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Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

A group of people, many wearing headscarfs, look at the ornate, painted walls and ceiling in a church.

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Chora Church Building (Kariye Mosque)

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, OCTOBER 28, 2015: Exterior shot of Dolmabahce Palace Selamlik Building. The Palace served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922.

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Dolmabahçe Palace

Shoppers walk a lane of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar under a painted arched ceiling, lined with lamp, coat and scarf stalls

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Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

Domes and minarets of Süleymaniye Mosque in İstanbul, Türkiye, framed by a stone archway

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Süleymaniye Mosque

Imperial Hall in the Harem of Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, with a gilded canopied throne, blue tiles and painted vaulted ceiling

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Topkapı Palace

A vendor in a red jacket talking to a customer beside piles of greens and fruit on a busy market street in Kadikoy, Istanbul.

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Kadıköy Çarşı

Pale panelled building with a lit name sign and external stairways above a brick plaza, people walking past at dusk

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İstanbul Modern

Rows of stone columns under brick vaults lit green, mirrored in still water, a lone figure at the far end of the aisle

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Basilica Cistern

Ornate cream marble palace on the Istanbul waterfront with a palm tree and gate pavilion, choppy blue water in front

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Beylerbeyi Palace

Blue Mosque courtyard in Sultanahmet with a domed ablution fountain, minaret and arcaded portico; visitors on marble paving

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People walking at Sultan Ahmet Square (The Old Hippodrome Of Constantinople), famous tourist attraction and landmark of Istanbul's historic peninsula.

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Antique Anatolian carpets hang beneath a brick-vaulted ceiling beside a panel reading Halı Sanatı – The Art of Carpet

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Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts

The Pera art museum is seen during a blue sky summer day in Beyoglu district.

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Mounds of spices with chalkboard labels reading Sumac, Isot and Curry on a stall at İstanbul's Spice Bazaar, Türkiye

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Crumbling stone and brick tower with arched openings above a dry grassy slope, two visitors walking up a path under blue sky

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Anadolu Kavağı Kalesi

Two tiers of weathered stone arches rise behind trees and a sunlit lawn, with traffic and pedestrians passing beneath

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Aqueduct of Valens

Bomontiada in Şişli, İstanbul: ochre ex-brewery buildings with a brick chimney, orange figure sculpture and café terraces

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White neo-Gothic church with a gilded domed bell tower on the Golden Horn waterfront, hillside houses behind

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Church of St Stephen of the Bulgars

Pink brick Byzantine church with three lead domes and rounded apses, behind a garden of clipped hedges and lamp posts

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Church of the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator

Restaurant tables with red and white cloths fill an arcade of ornate white facades beneath a glass dome hung with plants

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Çiçek Pasajı

Priest in black seated at the altar of an Orthodox church in İstanbul, between gilded icons, a chandelier hanging above

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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

The Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul

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Eyüp Sultan Mosque

Fishers on a bridge at sunset; city buildings are on the far shore.

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Stone tower with a conical lead roof and crowded viewing balcony, surrounded by rooftops and the Golden Horn at sunset

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Istanbul Archaeology Museum

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İstanbul Archaeology Museums

Ornate gold-carved prows of Ottoman royal barges topped with eagle figures, displayed in a modern glass-walled hall

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İstanbul Naval Museum

Red vintage tram 115 signed 'Taksim – Tünel' rolling through crowds on a pedestrian street hung with pennants

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İstiklal Caddesi

Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, İstanbul: stone facade with a central dome, two slender minarets and an arcaded porch amid trees

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Mihrimah Sultan Mosque

Gallery of framed sultan portraits under a sign reading Kuruluş Dönemi Osmanlı Padişahları, beside a large map

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Military Museum

Old medicine bottles, a barometer, photos, tickets, coins and a red toy car in a display case; label reads Bismomagnesie

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Museum of Innocence

Floodlit domes and two slender minarets of a large stone mosque at twilight, traffic blurring past in the foreground

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A white waterfront mosque with the Bosphorus Bridge rising behind it.

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Ortaköy Mosque

Balat, Fatih, Istanbul / Turkey - January 13 2020: The Patriarchal Church of St. George, Constantinople Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate interior view; Shutterstock ID 1644510007; purchase_order: 65050; job: ; client: ; other:

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Patriarchal Church of St George

Pera Palace Hotel stone facade with wrought-iron balconies and red awnings, a yellow taxi in the street below

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Pera Palace Hotel

Red-brick building with a domed central tower rises above tiled rooftops and a minaret, city skyline under cloud

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Phanar Greek Orthodox College

A museum room with transport-related displays around the outside and six old-fashioned motorcars parked in a line

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Rahmi M Koç Museum

Stone towers and crenellated walls of Rumeli Hisarı fortress among trees, with a Bosphorus suspension bridge behind

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Blue Iznik-tiled portico wall with Arabic calligraphy, a grilled window and a ring lamp at Rüstem Paşa Mosque, İstanbul.

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Rüstem Paşa Mosque

Cream timber mansion with white diagonal bracing and shuttered windows beside a smaller ornate villa hung with red banners

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Sadberk Hanım Museum

Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan, İstanbul: white mansion with a glass central bay, a rearing horse statue and palms in front

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Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Stone mosque with a large lead-covered dome, smaller turret domes and a slender minaret behind trees under blue sky

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Şehzade Mehmet Mosque

Lake and trees inside the Yıldız Park, Istanbul city.

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Fish stall in İstanbul: a vendor's hand picking red mullet from a wooden crate, surrounded by silvery fish and green leaves

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Three-storey wooden Ottoman house with projecting upper floors on a cobbled corner in Anadolu Hisarı, wisteria in bloom

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Anadolu Hisarı

People in winter coats walk along a paved avenue under bare plane trees beside a brick and stone tower and wall

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Hatice Sultan Yalısı in Ortaköy, İstanbul: a two-storey white neoclassical mansion on the water with hillside flats behind

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Hatice Sultan Yalısı

Hatice Turhan Sultan Tomb interior, İstanbul: velvet-draped cenotaphs with turbans, Iznik tiles and a ring chandelier

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Hatice Turhan Sultan Tomb

Hıdiv Kasrı in Çubuklu, İstanbul: cream villa with a tall flag-topped tower, arched windows and stepped pools in front

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Huber Yalı, Tarabya, İstanbul: white mansion with red tile roofs and Turkish flags on the Bosphorus, seen from the water

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View of The German Fountain on a sunny day in İstanbul.

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Kaiser Wilhelm's Fountain

Kız Kulesi on its islet in the Bosphorus, İstanbul, with a Turkish flag and small lighthouse, mosques on the far shore

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Little Aya Sofya interior, İstanbul: marble minbar on turquoise carpet, two-level colonnade, calligraphy and chandeliers

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Little Aya Sofya

Domed baroque marble mausoleum behind carved Ottoman tombstones, rose bushes and an ornate iron railing, minarets beyond

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Mihrişah Valide Sultan Complex

Great Palace Mosaics Museum, İstanbul: fragmentary floor mosaic of men spearing a tiger, with a leopard and ibex above

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Museum of Great Palace Mosaics

Obelisk of Theodosius on its marble base in Sultanahmet, İstanbul, with people strolling the paved square under blue sky

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Obelisk of Theodosius

Serpent Column, Sultanahmet, İstanbul: green coiled bronze shaft inside an iron railing, with visitors in the square behind

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Sphendone wall of the Hippodrome in İstanbul, crumbling brick and stone arches topped by a building wrapped in scaffolding

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Zarif Mustafa Paşa Yalı, İstanbul: cream wooden waterfront house with shutters, curved brackets and tiled roof

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Zarif Mustafa Paşa Yalı

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