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Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey – Historic Reproduction

Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919. — historic photograph
Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, Turkey, Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This stereograph shows the great dome of St. Sophia in Constantinople, as the city was known before its 1930s renaming to Istanbul. Justinian's builders finished the church in 537 as the Byzantine capital's cathedral, and after the Ottoman conquest of 1453 it became a mosque, with minarets added around its exterior. The Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued the card around 1919, and viewed through a stereoscope, its two nearly identical photographs gave American parlor audiences a sense of depth that a flat picture could not.

Created / publishedMeadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1919.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreGalleries & museums Turkey Istanbul 1910-1920.Stereographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ237956 U.S. Copyright Office No. 473. No. 10977.
SubjectsAyasofya Müzesi--1910-1920. Mosques--Turkey--Istanbul--1910-1920. Orthodox churches--Turkey--Istanbul--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan839 × 450 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-199687

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