Chora Mosque

World-famous for its well-preserved mosaics and frescoes, the Chora Mosque offers important and beautiful examples of Eastern Roman painting in its later period. The mosque was originally built as a Greek Orthodox church during the reign of Emperor Justinian I in the fifth century AD. Repairs and additions have changed the original building plan to a large extent. The church turned into a mosque in the sixteenth century during the Ottoman era, and then became a museum in the year 1945, but it returned to a mosque in the year 2020. The mosque building today dates back to the fourteenth century, and visitors will find wonderful arches, many domes, and majestic drawings on the ceilings and walls.