Plato uses chora in a sense close to space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialise.
In modern philosophy:
"Chora has been object of considerable philosophical reflection, especially in contemporary French philosophy, having taken the status of a master term in the writings of Julia Kristeva,... and more recently of Jacques Derrida. (...)
Chora, which Derrida insists must be understood without any definite article, has an acknowledged role at the very foundations of the concept of spatiality, place and placing: it signifies, at its most literal level, notions of "space", "location", "site", "region", "locale", "country": but it also contains an irreducible, yet often overlooked connection with the functions of feminity, being associated with a series of sexually-coded terms -- "mother","nurse","receptacle", and "imprint-bearer". — Elizabeth Grosz (1995) Space, time and perversion Routledge, New York & London :112
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The Chora Church (Turkish Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii, or Kariye Kilisesi — the Chora Museum, Mosque or Church) is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of a Byzantine church.
The Chora Church was originally built outside the walls of Constantinople, to the south of the Golden Horn.
The Anastasis fresco in the parecclesion of the Chora Church.
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