Chora Christ 03 Acrylic Print

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Chora Christ, Istanbul, Turkey. Square crop.

Detail of the mosaic of Christ as “The Land of the Living”, above the doorway to the inner space of the Chora Church.


The Church of the Holy Savior in Chora is a Byzantine Orthodox church from
Constantinople preserved now as the Chora Museum in Istanbul.

The interior of the building is covered with what many experts consider the finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and probably the finest Byzantine mosaics ever. These mosaics were preserved through the Ottoman era because when Constantinople fell and the church was turned into a mosque, the Muslims plastered over the mosaics instead of destroying them. This invaluable treasure was thus preserved and later restored when the mosque was turned into the museum it is nowadays.

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