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Mosaics --- Mural painting and decoration --- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey).

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Mosaics, Byzantine --- Mosaics --- Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine --- Mural painting and decoration --- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)

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The Chora is one of the most celebrated churches built in Constantinople during the Byzantine era (330-1453). It is particularly famous for its glorious mosaics and frescoes, mostly dating to the fourteenth century, which are a particularly fine example of Late Byzantine art. After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 the church was repurposed as a mosque, known as the Kariye Camii. Between 1945 and 2020 it had another incarnation, as the Kariye Museum, but then in 2020, in line with changing Turkish governmental policies, it again became a mosque. This Element sets out the history of the building, presents its artwork, and considers how best to interpret its construction, significance, and meaning. Above all, it offers an insight into images and words that are currently inaccessible to the general public.

Buildings --- Art, Byzantine --- Utilization --- History. --- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Chora (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Civilization

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"With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building's history, including the status of its mosaics as a major work of Palaiologan painting, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies"-- Provided by publisher.

Architecture and religion --- Buildings Utilization --- History. --- Buildings --- Utilization --- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) --- Chora (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Buildings, structures, etc.

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Architecture, Byzantine --- Mosaics, Byzantine --- Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine --- Conservation and restoration --- Metochites, Theodoros, --- Whittemore, Thomas --- Byzantine Institute of America --- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) --- History --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Buildings, structures, etc.