General Information on Blue Sultan Ahmet mosque

General Information on Blue

Tourists here to watch history, perhaps even with their dates of her always loved Istanbul, Sultanahmet, brought from all around the world are equipped with the works. Hagia Sophia, Haseki Almost Bath, the Blue Mosque ...

No wonder the first visit to Sultanahmet where the tourists wanted. Blue, historical peninsula's western tip, the most important religious of different empires, including administrative and civil structures and the traces on the Square today. Take time for yourself and for half an hour a day Visit uzağınızdaki of Sultanahmet, we live on how colorful and interesting history, embodying the structures in place and will not believe what is so impressive.
The Blue Mosque

The Blue Mosque, Sultan I. between the years 1609-1616 By john on the historical peninsula in Istanbul, Mimar Mehmet Aga mosque Sedefkar. Blue, green and white was decorated with Iznik tiles, the Europeans as the "Blue Mosque (Blue Mosque)" is called. Converted into a museum of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul became the main mosque. According to a legend the Sultan I. Ahmet, mainly wanted to make the minarets gold. But the value of gold that would be used in coating exceeded the budget of Sultan mosque, the architect Mehmet Aga Sedefkar supposedly wrong hearing this order, the "golden" word "six", making six minarets, the mosque has been constructed. State of the Blue Mosque and the mosque, the place of worship in 1895 64 x 72 meters high. The central dome 43 meters high, 23.5 meters in diameter. Inside the mosque is illuminated by 260 windows. November ghubâr Articles written by Sayyid Diyarbakir. Forms a complex with surrounding structures. The west entrance of the courtyard, iron is a heavy cord. This cord into the courtyard of the sultan on his horse's head eğmesini required to çarpmaması. This should give the sultan to show rearrange itself for entering the mosque, even a symbolic act.
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