Old & New İstanbul (1) / Eminonu Galata Bridge
Last month National Geographic magazine celebrated its 10th year in Turkey with a beautiful exhibition, with the photos taken in Turkey but have not been published before..They also gave a small album of these photos with the April issue. As I am always crazy about old photographs, it was such a big treat for me..
Now I will try to show you some places of İstanbul with the help of these photos..
Photo of Yeni Cami from the Galata bridge. Taken by Maynard Owen Williams in 1928
Galata Bridge is the bridge that spans the Golden Horn and the very fist bridge constructed at this place in 1894. The one in NG photo was the 4th bridge built in 1912. The current and the 5th one opened in 1994.
The Ottoman imperial mosque behind is called the New Mosque, but it was finished in 1665!!!
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