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Turns out the interior of the Blue Mosque isn't as blue as the nickname would suggest, so using the blue filter on my camera, it actually better resembles expectations.
In some traditions, boys who are soon to be circumcised are dressed-up and treated as princes. This little guy is taking a nap.
Church of St. Savior in Chora. An 11th-century view of Christianity.... The Church of Chora is 'the Bible' chronicled with pictograms. The faithful couldn't read: so the thought was, provide a pictorial revelation of the Bible. Istanbul, Turkey
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The design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church developments. It incorporates some Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period of Ottoman Empire. The architect has applied the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is first one of the two mosques in Turkey that has six minarets.Second one is the Sabancı Mosque in Adana. When the number of minarets was revealed, the Sultan was criticized for being presumptuous, since this was the same minarets number as at the mosque of the Ka'aba in Mecca.He overcame this problem by ordering a seventh minaret to be built at the Mecca mosque.