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Chora Church (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, Turkey
Chora Church (Kariye Camii), Istanbul, Turkey — This small Byzantine church on the city's ancient land walls contains some of the finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes in the world, created around 1320 AD. Its Anastasis fresco — showing Christ pulling Adam and Eve from their tombs — is a landmark of late Byzantine painting. © Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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