Fethiye mosque
The Fethiye mosque was one of the most known byzantin churches in Constantinople and is located in the district Fatih. The church was built in 1292 by Johannes II. Komnenos. Today the complex is used as a museum. GOOGLE ADSENSE
Besides the Hagia Sophia and the Chora church the Fethiye mosque has one of the riches collections of mosaics in the world. The donator of the mosaics was the imperator Andronikos II. After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans the church became the office of the patriarch. In 1592 Sultan Murad III changed it into a mosque to honour himself for its conquest of Georgia and Azerbaijan
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