{"id":636,"date":"2021-03-17T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-03-16T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:55:11","slug":"turkey-tours-name-that-site-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/turkey-tours-name-that-site-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Tours: Name That Site!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chora-istock3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/istanbul-69.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This little Byzantine church-turned-mosque-turned-museum is tucked into a quiet neighborhood of Istanbul, about 3 miles from the star attractions of the Old City. The building&#8217;s modest exterior belies the brilliance inside, where an outstanding collection of Byzantine frescoes and mosaics cover the walls, vaulted ceilings and domes. We can easily add this site to any of our private Turkey tours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chora-istock2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_6443_chora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the church was built in the 5th century, it lay outside the walls of Istanbul, hence part of its name \u2013 an ancient Greek word for the more rural fringes of a metropolitan area. Most of the current structure is from the 11th century and the frescos and mosaics are mostly from the 14th century. When the church was converted to a mosque by the Ottomans in the 16th century, the interior walls were plastered over, which had the lucky effect of preserving the priceless art underneath. The painstaking process of removing the plaster began when the mosque became a museum in 1945.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chora-mosaic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/choria-istock4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Can you name that site? 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We can easily add this site to any&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/turkey-tours-name-that-site-4\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-name-that-site-quiz","category-turkey","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turkey Tours: Name That Site! &#8211; Yalla Tours Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yallatours.com\/blog\/turkey-tours-name-that-site-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turkey Tours: Name That Site!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This little Byzantine church-turned-mosque-turned-museum is tucked into a quiet neighborhood of Istanbul, about 3 miles from the star attractions of the Old City. 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