Istanbul: Church of Chora

This church was built in the 5th century and is filled with beautiful mosaics. It is another church that was turned into a mosque and then into a museum which is what it is considered today.

Here are some pictures of the ceiling:










And the walls:



I kind of wonder how the faces are the only parts that stay for hundreds of years but the tiles used on the faces are much smaller than the tiles on the rest of the bodies so maybe that's why. But I have my suspicions that somebody touches up the faces every once in awhile:







A few pics of the outside. It was hard to get a good picture but you get the idea.