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Title

The Muslim cemetery of Pera (Beyoğlu). The cemetery started off today's Taxim square, and eventually reached the Bosporus through the neighborhoods of Gümüşsuyu and Fındıklı.

Alternative Title

Great burial ground, Pera.

Date

1838

Bibliographic Citation

LEWIS, John F. Lewis's Illustrations of Constantinople made during a Residence in that City in the Years 1835-6. Arranged and drawn on Stone from the Original Sketches of Coke Smyth by John F. Lewis, London, T. Mc.Lean, D & P. Colnaghi and John F. Lewis [1838].

Area/Place

Turkey
Thrace
Istanbul

Subject

Architecture and built environment
Religious practices
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Collection

Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library

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