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The Lion of Knidos in the Great Court of the British Museum; Eduardo Paolozzi's statue of Isaac Newton outisde the British Library (Roger Williams). The Arab Hall, Leighton House.
Turkish treasures are to be found in London's great institutions, from the ancient civilisations of Anatolia in the British Museum to exquisite manuscripts in the British Library and rare textiles at the V&A, while off the beaten track are such eye-openers as Leighton House, where Iznik ware sparkles and the Arab Hall makes an intimate concert venue.
Yusuf Agah Efendi, the Sublime Porte’s first Ambassador to Great Britain arrived in London in 1793, and settled into Robert Adam’s brand new Adelphi, just off the Strand. In 1863, Sultan Abdülaziz visited as part of his european tour. Tucked away around London are such vestiges of a centuries old relationship,
The museums offer astonishing gems from the Izniks at the Victoria and Albert Museum to the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (ancient Bodrum) at the British Museum. For those in search of the Contemporary, the Serpentine Gallery’s commitment to the art of the Middle East and its diaspora takes shape in the form of its Edgware Road Project. Galleries like Rose Issa represent Arab, Persian and Turkish artists, amongst others, and hidden behind a nondescript red-brick façade, deep in Kensington, lies the shimmering wonders of Lord Leighton’s astonishing Arab Hall.
But the many forgotten relics of past interactions shape even that classic London icon - St Paul’s Cathedral. Christopher Wren made an effort to investigate Ottoman dome construction when embarking on his magnum opus. Unfortunately, the inveterate traveller and diplomats wife Lady Wortley Montagu was less than impressed with the new Cathedral on her return from Istanbul to London: “Perhaps I am in the wrong, but some Turkish mosques please me better…St Paul’s Church would make a pitiful figure near [them]”.
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