Byzantine Relics of Istanbul

We will start our Byzantine Relics Tour with Hagia Sophia.

Then your tour guide will take you to The Great Palace Mosaic Museum. The museum houses mosaics from the Byzantine period, unearthed at the site of the Great Palace Of Constantinople.

Your Next Step will be the Monastery of the Pantocrator (Molla Zeyrek Cami), which is a mosque now in Istanbul, made of two former Eastern Orthodox churches and a chapel. It represents the most typical example of the architecture of the Byzantine middle period in Constantinople and is, after Hagia Sophia, the 2nd largest religious edifice built by the Byzantines still existent in Istanbul.

Then we will visit The Pammakaristos Church, also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos in 1591 converted into a mosque and known as Fethiye Mosque (Fethiye Cami, "mosque of the conquest") and today partly a museum, is one of the most famous Byzantine churches in Istanbul.

The Church of St. John Studios (Imrahor cami) The Monastery of Studios, more fully Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner “at Studios” often shortened to Studios or Stoudion (Latin: Studium), was historically the most important monastery of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

To finish the day, you will visit The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Istanbul, the spiritual center of the Greek Orthodox world since around 1600. Officially the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, it is known locally as the Fener Rum Patrikhanesi (Fener Greek Patriarch). It could be considered the Vatican of Eastern Orthodox church the 18th century Aya Yorgi Kilisesi, Istanbul (Church of St. George, Istanbul).