The Surp Krikor Lusavoriç church stands on the coastal road in the Istanbul neighborhood of Kuzguncuk. Below it lies the waters of the Bosphorus, to the northeast stands the intercontinental ...
A mosaic of different cultures, Istanbul is home to countless treasures of the past. Here’s the story of the obelisk towering ...
Carved for an Egyptian pharaoh and shipped to the Roman capital, the Obelisk of Theodosius has stood for over sixteen hundred ...
Today, Istanbul is a city of Muslims. Before the mid-15th century, however, it was a Christian city of the Byzantine Empire called Constantinople. In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by Sultan ...
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that ...
It’s true that the New Testament in the Bible began with Christ and his apostles on the day of Pentecost A.D. 33 and the Bible was in Greek. Important historical facts: Istanbul was originally known ...
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