More picturesque than the Istanbul Art Museum is the nearby Nusretiye Mosque, built between 1822 and 1826 by Kirkor Balyan, who had studied in Paris, in honour of the defeat of the Janissaries by Sultan Mahmut II. It’s now in a state of picturesque dilapidation:
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
So wonderful to travel with you. Thank you
You should be here ! Charles