EditorialTophane Fountain, Constantinople (Istanbul), circa 1800. Built in 1733, its white marble is decorated with passages from the Koran. The dome above is decorated with 16 towers. Turkish men wash at the fountains, and a woman's carriage with trellis windo...
EditorialA worker prepares to serve tea at Erciyes Kiraathanesim a coffeehouse in the Tophane neighborhood of Istanbul, on Oct. 16, 2020. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialA worker prepares to serve tea at Erciyes Kiraathanesim a coffeehouse in the Tophane neighborhood of Istanbul, on Oct. 16, 2020. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Mosque of Sultan Mahmud II (The Tophane or Nusretiye Mosque). It was built between 1823 and 1826 by Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1837), designed by the architect Krikor Balyan. Engraving. Historia de T...
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Mosque of Sultan Mahmud II (The Tophane or Nusretiye Mosque). It was built between 1823 and 1826 by Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1837), designed by the architect Krikor Balyan. Engraving. Historia de T...
EditorialWalk, Tophane at the K l'? Ali Pasha Mosque and the Tophan Fountain (Istanbul), Turkey signed: Winkles dir, Fig. 12, p. 216, Winkles (dir.), William A. Duckett, Th?ophile Gautier: La Turquie pittoresque: histoire, moeurs, description. Paris: Victor Lec...
EditorialTophane Fountain, Constantinople (Istanbul), circa 1800. Built in 1733, its white marble is decorated with passages from the Koran. The dome above is decorated with 16 towers. Turkish men wash at the fountains, and a woman's carriage with trellis windo...