Many of the mosques of Constantinople were formerly Christian churches. There is a belief among the Christians that when the old frescoes of Saint Sophia appear again through their coating of Turkish paint, the city will fall to Christian hands In the late afternoon the setting sun silhouettes these giant toothpicks or minarets against the eastern sky making the city from the sea fairyland of beauty.

Photographs show pedestrians on the Galata Bridge and boats on the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey.

Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26.
On page: no. 1396 (top image) and no. 1397 (bottom image).
Text under image no. 1397: Same as 1376.
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [70].
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).