Prof. Thomas Mathews

Seyh Murat Mescidi

Images:

View from the south in Paspates' lithograph, 1877. (1)

Detail of the north window from Walker's sketch, 1890. (2)

Bibliography:

A.F. von Warsberg, Ein Sommer im Orient (Vienna, 1869), p. 236.

A.G. Paspates, Byzantinai meletai, pp. 382-83.

C. Curtis and M. Walker, Broken Bits of Byzantium (London, 1890), fig. 52-56.

E. A Grosvenor, Constantinople (Boston, 1895), vol. 12, p. 470.

E. Mamboury, Constantinople, Tourists' Guide (Constantinople,, 1925), pp. 229-30.

Ivison, E.A. "The Seyh Murad Mescidi at Constantinople." Annual of the British School at Athens 85 (1990) 79-87. (about Hagios Elissaios). (TF)

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