Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom, the Hagia Sophia

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Accession Nr.: D.4467.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1905–1906
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured stereo glass diapositive
Dimensions: height: 8.5 cm
width: 17 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. From Dezső Bozóky's Photographic Collection: Constantinople (İstanbul). The Christian church was built in the 6th century AD, and was converted into a mosque in 1453, after the fall of Constantinople. It has been a museum since 1935.