Fenâri Îsâ Mosque - Molla Fenâri Îsâ Câmîsi

Fenâri Îsâ is a mosque , made of two former Eastern Orthodox churches. The northern was inaugurated in 908 AD. The church was built on the remains of another shrine of the sixth century, and using the tombstones of an ancient Roman cemetery. Between 1286 and 1304, Empress Theodora, widow of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, erected another church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Several exponents of the imperial dynasty of the Palaiologos were buried here besides Theodora: her son Konstantinos, Empress Eirene of Montferrat and her husband Emperor Andronikos II.
The photograph was taken around 1920.