İSTANBUL Bodrum camii
Bodrum camii; the Church of the Myrelaion Monastery was built in the early 10 th century by Romanus I Lecapenus. Below the edifice is a crypt, almost repeating the cross-in-square plan, which has given the name of Bodrum (basement) Mosque. Outside is the entrance to the remarkable circular cistern or Rotonda (cannot be visited). Seventy of the columns have survived. Several members of the Macedonian and Comnenus dynasties were buried in the monastery which was destroyed by fire first in 1784, and in 1911 by the great fire which ravaged the Grand Bazaar and Laleli area. The church and cistern have been restored in the 1990's
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