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Hidden in the quiet streets near the old land walls in the Edirnekapi district, the Kariye Mosque, long known as the Chora Church, holds what many regard as the finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes in the world. The name Chora means the country or the fields, recalling a time when the original church stood outside the city walls, and a religious building has occupied the site since at least the early Byzantine centuries. The present structure dates largely from the eleventh and twelft...