Istanbul: Memories and the City Istanbul: Memories and the City Istanbul: Memories and the City ("İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir") is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition. Most of all, it is a book about Bosphorus and Istanbul's history with the strait. It was translated into English by Maureen Freely in 2005. Pamuk wrote the book when he was on the verge of depression. In an interview he
St. Mary of Sakızağaç Cathedral, Istanbul St. Mary of Sakızağaç Cathedral, Istanbul The St. Mary of Sakızağaç Cathedral ( ) also called Surp Asdvadzadzin, or the Armenian catholic Cathedral of Istanbul Is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church that follows the Armenian rite in full communion with the Pope in Rome, which is located in the city of Istanbul, the largest in the Eurasian country of Turkey. Not to be confused With the other two Catholic cathedrals in that same locality, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit ("Saint Esprit Kilisesi"), which follows the Latin Rite and the cathedral of a