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It is all about the crowd. The mosque is jammed with tourists, gazing up, with borrowed scarves on their heads and around their waists.
Blue Mosque We had a great guide. One entrance had a line about a quarter of a mile long. She took a busload of cruise tourists around to the other side of the Mosque where we were able to enter immediately. The presentations and explanations can be the easy part of being a good guide.
The first mosque I have ever been in. I have to say that the carpet was quite comfortable. I didn't mind taking my shoes off.
Entrada principal a la mezquita azul. La mezquita fue construida durante el reinado del decimocuarto sultán otomano, Ahmet I, entre 1603-1617. Es la mezquita más fastuosa de Estambul.
This is the national mosque of Istanbul, and is about 400 years old. It's right across the way from the Haggia Sophia, and is an active mosque. Jay and I walked through (I had to stay in the women's area) during a prayer session. There is a neat picture of the inside of it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blue_mosque_interior_panorama...
İstanbul's most photogenic building was the grand project of Sultan Ahmet I, built between 1609 AD–1616AD.
The mosque's wonderfully curvaceous exterior features a cascade of domes and six slender minarets (more than any other mosque at the time it was built).
Blue İznik tiles adorn the interior and give the building its unofficial but commonly used name.
The mosque's architect, Sedefhar Mehmet Ağa, managed to orchestrate the sort of visual wham-bam effect with the mosque's exterior that Aya Sofya achieved with its interior.