Beautiful (at least the exterior church) in Istanbul with a nice grounds…read more So why the 2 stars? Every Mosque we went into was always super friendly and the looks my son and I got from the staff here you would think we were literally the barbarians at the gate. We spent at most 5 minutes here and moved on to greener pastures

Beautiful Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic Church tucked away off busy İstiklal Avenue. Run by Italian…read morepriests, masses are conducted in Italian, Polish, Turkish and English. Pope John XXIII conducted mass at this church for a decade when he was the Vatican's ambassador to Turkey. He is affectionately known as the "Turkish Pope" in Turkey due to his fluency in Turkish and his love for Istanbul and the Turkish people.