Kerkey - 藍色清真寺 (藍廟) Sultan Ahmed Mosque (The Bluish Mosque)
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is a historical mosque inwards Istanbul, the largest metropolis inwards Turkey as well as the uppercase of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is popularly known every bit the Blue Mosque for the blueish tiles adorning the walls of its interior.
Old photograph of the Blue Mosque, taken earlier 1895
It was built betwixt 1609 as well as 1616, during the dominion of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it too comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah as well as a hospice. While notwithstanding used every bit a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has too expire a pop tourist attraction.
Courtyard of the mosque, at dusk time
After the Peace of Zsitvatorok (1606) as well as the unfavourable final result of the wars amongst Persia, Sultan Ahmed I decided to build a large mosque inwards Istanbul every bit recompense. This would endure the outset purplish mosque to endure built inwards to a greater extent than than xl years. Whereas his predecessors had paid for their mosques amongst their country of war booty, Sultan Ahmed I had to withdraw the funds from the treasury, because he had non won whatsoever notable victories. This provoked the anger of the ulema, the Muslim legal scholars.
Two tourists staring at the Blue mosque inwards the Sultan Ahmed park
The mosque was to endure built on the site of the palace of the Byzantine emperors, facing the Hagia Sophia (at that fourth dimension the near venerated mosque inwards Istanbul) as well as the hippodrome, a site of swell symbolic significance. Large parts of the southern side of the mosque remainder on the foundation as well as vaults of the Great Palace. Several palaces had already built there, near notably the palace of Sokollu Mehmet Paşa, as well as thus these outset had to endure bought at a considerable terms as well as pulled down.
Interior view, featuring the prayer surface area as well as the principal dome
Large parts of the Sphendone (curved tribune amongst U-shaped construction of the hippodrome) were too removed to brand room for the novel mosque. Construction of the mosque started inwards August 1609 when the sultan himself came to pause the outset sod. It was his intention that this would expire the outset mosque of his empire. He appointed his royal architect Sedefhar Mehmet Ağa, a educatee as well as senior assistant of the famous architect Mimar Sinan to endure inwards accuse of the construction
The Blue Mosque amongst all half dozen minarets visible
The arrangement of the operate was described inwards meticulous item inwards 8 volumes, straight off flora inwards the library of the Topkapı Palace. The opening ceremonies were held inwards 1617 (although the inscription on the gate of the mosque says 1616). The sultan could straight off pray inwards the royal box (hünkâr mahfil).
Sunset over the Bosphorus, left the Blue Mosque, correct the Hagia Sophia
The edifice was non yet finished inwards this final yr of his reign, every bit the final accounts were signed past times his successor Mustafa I. Known every bit the Blue Mosque, Sultan Ahmed Mosque is 1 of the near impressive monuments inwards the world.
The mosque was depicted on the contrary of the Turkish 500 lira banknotes of 1953-1976
Arcaded forecourt amongst 1 of the entrance gates
Blue tiles
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