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The Basilica Cistern Museum is open to visitors every day of the week between 09.00 and 18.00. Remuneration Ticket: 300 TL * Our institution is not affiliated with the Ministry of Culture. * You can buy Basilica Cistern entrance tickets online from Passo. ·       

In the Depths of History One of the magnificent ancient buildings of İstanbul is the Basilica Cistern located in the southwest of Hagia Sofia. Constructed for Justinianus I, the Byzantium Emperor (527-565), this big underground water reservoir is called as “Yerebatan Cistern” among the public because of the underground marble columns. As there used to