Press Photo Festival Hall of the Topkapi Palace

Within the Imperial Harem, an uncanny silence reigns in the enormous - and -deserted - opulence of the Hunkar Salon or great Festival Hall of the Topkapi Palace. The huge room served the whims and vanity of imperial family alone, their ritual circumcisions of young princess, their veiled weddings, the esoteric pleasures of the rulers of millions on three continents.

Photo measures 10.25 x 7.25 inches.

Photo is dated --none.

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