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The Blue Mosque, mono
This is the beautiful Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque. It is an Ottoman-era mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue, as lights surround the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes ...
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The Blue Mosque, mono
This is the beautiful Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque. It is an Ottoman-era mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue, as lights surround the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes ...
Image dimensions: 3797 x 4911 pixels