Friday, 2 January 2015

The German Fountain / Alman Çeşmesi

Byzantine-revival fountain by architects Spitta, Schoele, Carlitzik and Joseph Anthony, 1900, recently restored. Materials include marble columns, a green bronze dome and gold mosaic ceiling. A relative youngster in an area of ancient monuments, it was a present from the German Emperor Wilhelm II to Sultan Abdulhamid II and the city of Istanbul. 

(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - credit: Images George Rex.)