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Behind Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Torun Sokak, just off the Arasta Çarsisi (Arasta Bazaar) is theGreat Alcazar Mosaic Building (Büyük Saray Mozaik Müzesi), captivation abounding of the best civil 6th aeon Byzantine mosaics in the city.

The mosaics, lively, adept images of hunting scenes, allegorical beasts, absurd altar and imaginings, are the charcoal of a ample courtyard that already adjoined the Alcazar Aula, one of the abounding courtyards, admirers accommodation and head rooms, gardens, churches and chapels, baths and fountains of the vast, circuitous Great Alcazar (Palatium Magnum) circuitous ordered congenital by Constantine the Great (306-337), architect of Constantinople. The alcazar circuitous covered abundant of the breadth on the east ancillary of the Hippodrome (At Meydani) and continued decline to the city-limits walls on the Sea of Marmara.

Much of the alcazar circuitous was destroyed in the adverse Nika riots of 532. It was rebuilt on adjustment of Emperor Justinian (527-565). The mosaics you see in the building are from this time, the 6th century.

They’re not as fine, bright and august as the ones in Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia) because these were in a courtyard accessible to the acclimate and meant to be absolved on, while the ones in Ayasofya were on the walls. Also, don’t analyze these to the ones in the Kariye Building (Church of the Holy Savior in Chora), which were created eight centuries later!

The mosaics in the Great Alcazar Mosaic Building are still absolutely hasty in their activity and variety: a man milks a goat, a adult suckles its foal, a monkey-like animal uses a stick to exhausted dates down from a approach tree, a deer bites a serpent, addition serpent is captivated in an eagle’s claws, two dogs advance a ample hare, warriors action it out, a bobcat attacks an elephant….

When you avenue the Mosaic Museum, you’ll be in the Arasta Exchange on the east ancillary of the Blue Mosque. Turn appropriate (south), airing through the exchange and beeline decline forth Küçük Ayasofya Camii Sokak to ability the Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, congenital by Justinian as the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus about 530 AD.

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