FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
LAW COURTS DESTROYED. FAMOUS MOSQUES THREATENED. Received Dec. 4, 10.25 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Doc. 3. The most extensive fire in the city’s recent history, after gutting the Law Courts and destroying the archives, was only prevented by a. strong gale from reaching the mosque of St. Sophia. The flames reached a point only ten yards distant. The masque’s early Christian go] * mosaics only recently were restored by the Sultan. The Ahmed mosque was also threatened, and soldiers escorted the inmates to an adjacent prison to safer custody.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 5
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