People and Places
Photos of the World by
Galen R Frysinger
Turkey
Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya in Turkish), built in the 6th century as
an Orthodox Christian (Byzantine) church
and later converted into a mosque
an overnight stop for camel caravans
from the Seljuk period
Church of the Holy
Cross
town square
statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
(1881-1938)
founder of modern Turkey
Armenian style church
tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, (1881-1938)
church built within the grotto by Crusaders in the 12th and 13th centuries
rock chapels carved by the early Christians
the mosque
Urartu fortress at Cavustepe
After the death of Celsus
Polemaenus in 114 AD
his son started the construction of a monument
and the library, and in his will left a sum of 25,000 denarii
to be used for the completion of the library and the purchase of books
site of ancient Harran
entrance to the great palace complex of Topkapı Sarayı
Konya, a town Holy to Muslims
nomad camp
Pergamum
(much of the temple is in the museum in Berlin)
the Byzantine Monastery of the Virgin at Sumela
view of the town