Hagia Sophia Church built in 415 AD considered one if not the oldest church building around. Once a mosque but now a museum
Some of the faithful, or are they famous celebrities?
Eating hot dogs early in the morning
Pretzels carts everywhere, and they were quite good.
Quite a structure
Now if this doesn't have tourist written all over Tim, hat and bag which designates that you have purchase a rug.
Roasted corn and chestnuts
The pulpit
What should I do next?
Kissing in the pulpit is that legal, well in Turkey it is.
Lisa welcoming the crowds
These structures represent the 12......
The official look of a mission pastor while in Istanbul.
One entrance
The art work in the ceilings were incredible.
After the church fell it was turned into a mosque and you can see where they removed any symbols of the cross or Christianity, but the cool thing is the images and outline are still embedded in the walls
You can't take the cross away even if you remove it.....
When they turn the church into a mosque the plastered over all of the paintings of Christianity but now that it is a museum they have started uncovering and these are the images that they found under several inches of plaster
The is a picture of what they think the wall will look like once they dig through all of the plaster
These were found up on the ceilings.
They are doing lots of work to bring this museum up to date and all of this is the scaffolding that it takes to get to the roof inside
This is a big jar.
See what I mean?
All of these lights used to be candles can you imagine lighting all of these everyday.
What a place?
