"December 2000"--Colophon

Seven folded leaves

Issued in illustrated slip case showing the mosaic on the South dome depicting the genealogy of Christ and the fresco scene of a flying angel rolling up the heavens found in the parecclesion

Illustrated endpapers showing a mosaic decorative pattern within the Chora

Cover of green, slightly iridescent cloth with a rough texture made of a darker green; has gold lettering with an eight points gold "baptismal cross" with a circle just inside the points. The cross duplicates a mosaic design found in the North dome. Spine of gold cloth with a rough texture of a light green; carries green lettering and one small abstract design also found withing the Chora

Colored illustration of a panorama of Constantinople shortly before the Turkish conquest, from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (Nuremburg, 1493)--p. 19

Illustrations include: Western facade before the Restoration of 1875-6, after A.G. Paspatis (p. 25) and the West Facade, c. 1900, from a photograph by Sebah and Joallier (p. 29)

The Chora Church (Kariye Kilisesi) became a mosque, Kariye Camii (1511-1948), and then became a museum, the Kariye Müzesi, in 1958

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254)