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Our museum will be closed on June 2 between 19.30-20.30. You can visit it as of 20.30 The Basilica Cistern Museum is open to visitors every day of the week between 09.00 and 22.00. Remuneration 09.00-19.00 | Ticket: 350 TL 19.00-22.00 | Ticket: 550 TL * Our institution is not affiliated with the Ministry of Culture.

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