Vefa Kilise Camii

Interior: Entrance Vestibule

Title Variant
Hagios Theodoros Church, Kilise Mosque
Date

11th-12th century

Geographic Coordinates
41.016389, 28.960278

Work Type

Notes

This complex was originally utilized as a Roman Catholic Church. It was converted into a mosque shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in the 15th century.

Culture

Subject

Islam
Byzantine (architecture)
Turkish (architecture)
Comnenian (architecture)
Palaiologan (architecture)
Roman Catholic (architecture)
Image Date
July, 2014
Image Source

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

Photographer