After our visit to the Patriarchate, we grabbed a quick lunch and then took a cab to the Kariye Museum. I’ll will say, you don’t soon forget a ride in a Turkish ‘Taksi’. Kariye, like Hagia Sophia, was a church, then a mosque and now a museum. It’s much smaller than Hagia Sophia, but what she lacks in grandiose architecture, she more than makes up for in amazing iconography. The artwork at Kariye is simply breathtaking. Words won’t do it justice, and as such, I’ll shut up now.
