Category
Church
9 places
- Westminster AbbeyThe church where English and British monarchs are crowned and many are buried, rebuilt in Gothic form from the 1240s.UNESCOChurch
- St Paul's CathedralChristopher Wren's domed cathedral, built after the Great Fire and climbable to galleries under and above the dome.Church
- Chora ChurchByzantium's finest surviving mosaics and frescoes, in a modest church far from the tourist spine.UNESCOChurch
- Trinity ChurchAn Episcopal parish at the head of Wall Street since 1698; its churchyard is older than the finance around it.Church
- Ecumenical Patriarchate of ConstantinopleThe senior see of the Orthodox world, behind a gate welded shut since 1821.Church
- Little Hagia SophiaSaints Sergius and Bacchus — the dome experiment that preceded Hagia Sophia by a few years.Church
- Zeyrek MosqueThe Pantokrator monastery, second only to Hagia Sophia among the city's surviving Byzantine churches.UNESCOChurch
- Bulgarian St. Stephen ChurchCast in iron in Vienna, shipped down the Danube and bolted together on the Golden Horn.Church
- Church of St. Anthony of PaduaThe largest Catholic church in the city, set back from İstiklal behind a brick courtyard.Church