The surroundings of the Crimea Memorial Church in Istanbul are ‘little better than a dump’, wrote the British embassy chaplain in 1964. ‘It takes an intimate knowledge of the place to find it.’
Today, the street running north-west from the Galata tower on the far side of the Golden Horn is quite chic.
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