Faith & Sacred Heritage
Birgi Grand Mosque: History and Visitor Guide
Discover Birgi’s 1312–13 landmark, celebrated for its Aydinid architecture, turquoise brickwork, carved doors and masterful wooden pulpit.
⌖ Ödemiş, İzmir
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Places worth your time in İzmir
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Faith & Sacred Heritage
Selçuk Minaret: History and Visitor Guide
Find Bergama’s solitary medieval minaret and read its turquoise, purple and yellow glazed-brick decoration as a fragment of a vanished…
⌖ Bergama, İzmir
Museums & Galleries
Radio and Democracy Museum: Collection, Hours and Visitor Guide
Discover Radio and Democracy Museum in Konak, with collection highlights, historical context and practical advice for a thoughtful visit.
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Museums & Galleries
İzmir Women’s Museum: Collection, Hours and Visitor Guide
Discover İzmir Women’s Museum in Konak, with collection highlights, historical context and practical advice for a thoughtful visit.
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Museums & Galleries
İzmir Mask Museum: Collection, Hours and Visitor Guide
Discover İzmir Mask Museum in Konak, with collection highlights, historical context and practical advice for a thoughtful visit.
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Museums & Galleries
Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum: Collection, Hours and Visitor Guide
Discover Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum in Konak, with collection highlights, historical context and practical advice for a thoughtful…
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Faith & Sacred Heritage
Red Basilica: History and Visitor Guide
Explore Bergama’s immense Roman sanctuary, later transformed by Christian, Jewish and Muslim use across an exceptional religious landscape.
⌖ Bergama, İzmir
Faith & Sacred Heritage
Başdurak Mosque: History and Visitor Guide
Discover a seventeenth-century Kemeraltı mosque built above bazaar shops, with carved stone, floral plasterwork and a long history of repair.
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Faith & Sacred Heritage
Kestanepazarı Mosque: History and Visitor Guide
Explore one of Kemeraltı’s spacious bazaar mosques, rebuilt after the 1868 earthquake and raised above a working row of shops.
⌖ Konak, İzmir
Faith & Sacred Heritage
Konak Yalı Mosque: History and Visitor Guide
Meet the small tiled mosque beside İzmir Clock Tower and discover how an eighteenth-century waterfront sanctuary became a city-centre icon.
⌖ Konak, İzmir