Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) not the Hagia So by junge1

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 17, 2016

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It was pointed out to me by KarmaSong that this picture is actually of the Blue Mosque, not the Hagia Sophia. After some checking I realized that he was correct and I was wrong and had been careless. In the picture I posted I saw 4 minarets, and the Hagia Sophia has 4 minarets, the Blue Mosque has 6. But the 4 minarets visible in my post show 3 balconies each, which 4 of the 6 minarets have, the 4 minarets of the Hagia Sophia have only 2 balconies each. In the olden days these minarets were used by a muezzin 5 times a day to call for prayer. As Jean-Luc (KarmaSong) pointed out, the two buildings are located close to each other. They are both massive and beautiful and an easy way to tell them apart is the number of minarets. The difference is that the Hagia Sophia which means 'Holy Spirit' was built as a cathedral in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the 6th century to serve Orthodox Christianity, was converted in 1453 into a mosque, after Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II and served as such until 1931 and was closed. It re-opened in 1935 as a museum. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) was built between 1609 and 1616 and it still serves as a mosque today but is open to the public at certain times of the day. To enter, footwear needs to be removed, the body must be properly covered, and women were required to cover their heads. Thank you Jean-Luc for pointing this error out to me. BTW, previous posts of these houses of worship were properly identified. This photo was taken on 28 June 2013, Sig...

Comments (16)

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photosynthesis

12:41AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Nice shot of this amazing piece of architecture...

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starship64 Online Now!

12:55AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Beautiful shot.

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giulband

1:09AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Perfectly taken !! and absolutely fascinating place , I hope to have the opportunity to go there in the future

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durleybeachbum

2:01AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

A fab building. I have been entranced by documentaries about the interior.

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soffy

2:50AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Wonderful shot of this beautiful and impressive building*****

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farmerC

4:38AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Amazing and Beautiful shot.

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SunriseGirl

6:08AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Wow! That is much bigger than I realized. This shot really shows it's scale and the beautiful architecture. That is a museum I would love to visit.

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Faemike55

10:34AM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Very beautiful building

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X-PaX

12:23PM | Thu, 17 March 2016

Very nice capture of this beautiful architecture.

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KarmaSong Online Now!

2:00PM | Thu, 17 March 2016

This gorgeous photo and majestic masterpiece of beauty remind me of my first time in Istanbul...I was just wondering whether this mosque is not actually... the blue mosque ?! Hagia Sophia is nearby, more massive with part of its walls painted in reddish ochre, if my memory serves me right ....

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