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| Hagia Sophia - http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Hagia_Sophia.html Great Buildings Online provide photographs, 3D model, choice quotations and bibliography of the Byzantine masterpiece designed by Isidoros and Anthemios at Istanbul, Turkey, 532-7. |
| The Suleymaniye Mosque: Beyond Inspiration - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/4205/20882 Illustrated article by Alia F. Hasan from Suite101 comparing and contrasting this magnificent mosque with its inspiration the Hagia Sophia. |
| Beyazit Tower - http://www.mersina.com/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/beyazit_tower.html Deniz Kaya's illustrated article on the stone firemen's watch tower in Istanbul, built in 1828. From Mersina. |
| Byzantium 1200 - http://www.byzantium1200.com/ A non-profit project creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople (now Istanbul) as they stood in 1200 AD. |
| Computer Model of the Hagia Sophia - http://www.princeton.edu/~asce/const_95/const.html Project by Princeton University in 1996. Technical details of producing the model, some photographs. |
| Fener and Balat Row Houses - http://www.angelfire.com/art2/fener_balat/ A typological study by Serhat Cetinturk of the facades of houses in this historic district of Istanbul, using maps, drawings and photographs from the archive of the Planning Department of Mimar Sinan University. |
| Mansions on the Water - Yalis of Istanbul - http://www.mersina.com/lib/yali/index.html An illustrated article by Chris Hellier in Mersina on the grand houses on the Bosphorus shore, built by the former Ottoman elite. |
| On the Great Church - http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/procopius.stm Description by Procopius in 537 of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Taken from the Lethabv/Swainson translation of De Aedificiis. |