Illés Relief is a 1:500 scale model of the city of Jerusalem, built for the Ottoman Pavilion at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair.
The Illés Relief
Description label on the relief
The 1873 Vienna World's Fair was the large world exposition that was held from 1 May to 31 October 1873 in the Austria-Hungarian capital Vienna. Its motto was "Culture and Education".
The Rotunde, the centre of the exhibition
A Western engraving of the Japanese craftsmen constructing the pavilion and garden
The foyer of the Japanese pavilion, from the Japanese report on the fair compiled under Tsunetami Sano
The interior of the pavilion, including the golden shachi, from the Illustrated Times (Illustrirte Zeitung)