Ghiordes (Asia Minor) Rug. One of the most highly prized by collectors.
Old Ghiordes rug 18th c.
Category: Turkey
Costumes, customs, traditions and history of Turkey.
Caravansary at Kustchiuk Czemege
Caravansaries are public edifices established in almost every town and village throughout the Turkish empire
The Hagia Sophia of Trebizond, Turkey. Byzantine Architecture.
The Hagia Sophia, former Byzantine monastic church in Trabzon. Byzantine Art, History and Architecture.
Trouser shapes of Asia Minor. Turkey, Kurdish, Persian.
Trousers of a Kurdish leader. Turkish men’s trousers, Armenian women’s trousers, Persian men’s trousers.
Specimens of Turkish embroidery. The silk goods of Turkey.
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877) – Specimens of Turkish Embroidery – from the Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1851-1853).
Yerebatan Serail – The Subterranean Palace. Basilica Cistern, Istanbul.
Constantinople and its environs. The “Subterranean Palace” still remains a cistern filled with water.
Women Mystics of the Dervish Orders. Female muslim Sufi saints.
Women Mystics by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett. Sisterhood of Mystics. Female muslim Sufi saints. The holy women of the Dervish Orders.
Ottoman Mosque of Shah-za-deh Djamesi (Sehzade), Constantinople.
Street market with fruit and vegetable vendors and supervisors. The Sehzade Mosque in Instanbul in the background.
Prison of the Seven Towers. Yedikule Fortress.
The Prison of the Seven Towers. Yedikule Fortress or Dungeons of the Seven Towers in Istanbul, former Constantinople.
The Dervishes of the various Orders. Islamic mysticism.
The religious doctrines, monastic organisation, and ecstatic powers of the dervish orders.