Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, mosaic, inner narthex, pendentive of south dome, Healing of Woman with Issue of Blood
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, mosaic, inner narthex, southwest pendentive of south dome, Healing of Blind and Dumb Man
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, exonarthex, 5th bay from north, fresco, tomb of Irene Raoulaina Palaeologina
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Interior, mosaic, inner narthex, entrance to naos. Detail: Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, bema, south wall, Virgin and Child. Detail: heads
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, west bay, northern lunette, west half. Detail: Jacob dreaming, Jacob's Ladder, Jacob wrestling with the Angel
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Plan of restored church
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Interior, outer narthex. Detail: view looking north
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
UM HistArt VRC Restricted
Work Title
Christ the Saviour in Chora
Chora Museum
Kariye Camii
Kariye Kilisesi
Kariye Muzesi
Saint Saviour in Chora
View Title
Interior, outer narthex. Detail: third bay, view looking southeast
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, mosaic, inner narthex, the North Dome, Annunciation. Detail: Mary and Angel
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, mosaics, inner narthex, east lunette of second bay from north. Detail: Mary in the arms of Joachim
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, mosaic, inner narthex, west lunette of second bay from north. Detail: the Betrothal of the Virgin
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, apse, vault, the Anastasis. Detail: central portion
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, east bay, vault, northeast pendentive. Detail: Abraham with Lazarus and other souls in Paradise
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, west bay, dome. Detail: Virgin and Child with the twelve Angels of the Lord, western half
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Interior, parecclesion, frescoes, west bay, northern lunette, east half. Detail: Moses and the Burning Bush
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Parecclesion, interior, frescoes, west bay, southern lunette, east half. Detail: King Solomon and all Israel before the Ark of the Covenant
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958
Keyto the paintings of the Parecclesion: left, paintings in vaults, above cornice; right, paintings on walls, below cornice
Creator/Culture
Culture: Byzantine
Site/Repository
Creation location: Constantinople (Marmara, Turkey); Site: Istanbul (Turkey)
Period/Date
Byzantine; original building 5th century CE; rebuilt in present form ca. 1316-1321; converted to a mosque ca. 1510, restoration date: 1948; opened to public as a museum 1958