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- Inside the 'Spice Bazaar'
- Inside the 'Spice Bazaar'
- Fishermen at the Galatia Bridge
- Süleymaniye Mosque, from Galatia Tower
- View of the Golden Horn and the Bosphoros, from Galatia Tower
- View of Sultanahmet, the Golden Horn, and the Galatia Bridge, from Galatia Tower
- Transit of Venus, seen at sunrise from Istanbul
(Standing in Europe; watching the sun rise over Asia.) - Transit of Venus
- Statue of Ataturk, underneath the Turkish flag
- Dome of the Hagia Sophia
- Inside the Hagia Sophia
Completed in 537 AD, this was the largest Christian cathedral in the world for almost 1000 years. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, it became a mosque. It is now a museum. - Byzantine graffiti in a railing at the Hagia Sophia
- Inside the Hagia Sophia
- The dome of the Sultan Ahmed ('Blue') Mosque
- Inside the 'Blue Mosque'
So nicknamed because of the thousands of blue Iznik tiles lining the interior.