Istanbul 'Bonus Feature': Vintage Photographs
One more posting on Istanbul (for now), and it's a good one
I don’t want to over-sell this, but I could go on posting postcards from Istanbul for some more time, even though I don’t wish to bore you, dear readers.
Hence, I’ll link but one more time to the three previous postings in this mini-series:
The above-linked posting contains the links to the earlier articles.
Today, I’ll post a few photographs that I found amidst the picture postcards, and I think they serve as a nice closure, of sorts, to this series.
Note that I am not really familiar with Istanbul (I never was there), but I shall update this posting if and when I learn about what is actually shown in due time.
On the Bosphorus Straits, I suppose (above); in a mosque courtyard (below).
Shown here is City Hall—actually, the İstanbul Belediye Sarayı, of which both a Turkish-language Wikipedia entry and a postcard in my possession exist:
Behind the building, the Süleymaniye Mosque is visible, with the Hagia Sophia in the background. Given this particular information, I consider it possible (but I don’t know) that the photograph below were taken in the Süleymaniye Mosque’s courtyards.
Finally, the last photograph I am going to share here may show the Rumelihisarı Fortress once upon a time (judging—guessing—from the look of the tower in the background). If I had to guess a bit more, it might be the rear entrace to Boğaziçi University, which is located right next to the Rumelihisarı Fortress (but, once again, I don’t know and I’m happy to stand corrected).
Let’s move on to some other place in the next posting, shall we?
…although Istanbul from your postcards looks fascinating and mesmerising.
I still love the kind of snapshot of history, people/buildings/cars/activities that postcards creates and allows us in.
Certainly looks like a fortress. So wonderful. You would never get bored enjoying the architecture in Istanbul, that’s for sure