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Basilica Cistern
Sign in to savecistern of Byzantine Constantinople
Key facts
- Location
- Istanbul
- Public access
- Yes
- Website
- www .yerebatan .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Fatih
- Location
- Istanbul
- Official website
- yerebatan.com
- Image
- Cisterna Basílica, Estambul, Turquía, 2024-09-28, DD 58-60 HDR.jpg
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- architectural style
- Byzantine architecture
- Commons category
- Basilica Cistern
- Commons gallery
- Yerebatan Sarnıcı
- native label
- Yerebatan Sarnıcı
- commissioned by
- Justinian I
- located in/on physical feature
- Marmara Region
- described at URL
- www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/cisterna-nakilbent
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Encyclopedic overview
The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica (Greek: Βασιλική Κινστέρνα, Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı or Yerebatan Sarayı, "Subterranean Cistern" or "Subterranean Palace"), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The cistern, located 150 metres (490 ft) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Today it is kept with little water, for public access inside the space.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Basilica Cistern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.