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I am not very lucky with the Pammakaristos Monastery. I went to see this former Byzantine chuch in 2019, at the very start of my travels around Turkey in Istanbul. I remember the entire structure being covered in scaffolding. It seemed that they had just started major restoration works and I couldn't see anything at all.
I returned to Istanbul in June 2024. Naturally, the Pammakaristos Monastery was on ...
I wrote about the crypt of the Saint Sava church for the first time in 2018. The crypt was its only finished part and was open for visits. I updated that post in 2020, while I stayed in Belgrade for six months during the corona pandemic. At that time they were finishing the mosaic, but I left Belgrade before I could see the finished church.
I went back to Belgrade after approximately 3 years. Of course, ...
