400 year old secret of the Blue Mosque

400 year old secret of the Blue Mosque

Since 1609 where the Blue Mosque was carrying a mysterious secret. Blue waters, rain water flowing from faucets şadırvanlarda Camii'ndeki determine how the exhaust. X-ray shot of the underworld.

The secret of the incredible 402-year history of the mosque, the restoration turned out to tender. The south side overlooking the sea, especially in the last period of the Blue Mosque because of the humidity Foundations General Directorate, has decided a comprehensive restoration. The restoration project won the contract for the 350 thousand TL İnkaya Feyhan architect. Great restoration of a planning study was initiated before the Blue Mosque, inch by inch.

Upon 23 THOUSAND TILE


In this study, went to the Blue Mosque and the waste water drain rain water could not be reached as well as a fountain. Help these channels could not find the desired İSKİ. Report of the Director General of Foundations. Adnan Ertem, Habertürk'e said:

"How to do drainage channels, to be determined how much area covered by the first time. According to the results, work directed, moisture will be prevented. "Famous for the first time the tiles were counted one by one, known as the number of 23 thousand 20 thousand, respectively.

Occupied Land

Architects who prepared the project Feyhan İnkaya IM, told what they can do in the first place:

"The complex than before, before I have ruined palaces of the sultan or vizier. X-ray remnants, we will shoot rays sent from the soil below. Some areas have been crash. In fact in some places with a large complex of buildings on currently allocated to the land converted buildings. Oven, kitchen and charitable establishment was under the building is currently Rector of Marmara University. The complex in such a dirty toilet water, and has expenses. Currently we are looking for and location of the original no toilets. "

YES fees ostrich eggs

Synthesis of 200 years of Ottoman and Byzantine architecture, forming the summit of the Blue Mosque, 1609, I. By Ahmed, a student Sedefkar Mehmet Aga was built by Mimar Sinan. Because of its blue tiles "Blue Mosque (Blue Mosque)," also known as. Külliyesiyle, the largest buildings in Istanbul.

Worship 64 x 72 meters, 43 meters in height. Of the central dome 23.5 meters in diameter. Spiders and insects do not like the smell of the concrete of the Blue Mosque is known to use ostrich eggs.