The Blue Mosque is a name that indicates it
Last Updated: 2023-07-27
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Blue Mosque in Istanbul
With Marsa Real Estate get to know one of the most beautiful and famous Turkish mosques in the world and not only in Turkey .. a unique architectural masterpiece, and one of the largest and most famous mosques in the Islamic world, the mosque that includes the fingerprints of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture.
The Blue Mosque was built during the reign of Sultan Ahmed I in 1609-1616 under the supervision of Engineer Muhammad Agha, one of the students of the famous architecture "Sinan".
In this article, you will read:
-Blue Mosque website
In this article, you will read:
-Blue Mosque website
- Sultanahmet Mosque
- What does the Blue Mosque look like?
- The internal section of the mosque
Location of the Blue Mosque – Sultan Ahmed Mosque:
The Blue Mosque is located south of the Hagia Sophia Museum and east of the ancient Byzantine Race Square, which overlooks the Bosphorus, and Sultan Ahmed intended that when ordering its construction to ensure that wonderful view, and the construction of the Blue Mosque was completed a year before the death of Sultan Ahmed, as he was buried in it.
What does the Blue Mosque look like?
The mosque has a high wall that surrounds it on three sides, and the wall has five doors, three of which lead to the courtyard of the mosque and two to the prayer hall.
As for the courtyard of the mosque, it consists of a large courtyard, and in the middle of the courtyard is a hexagonal light carried on six columns,
The influence of Persian art is evident on the grand door that leads to the Blue Mosque nave.
The mosque has five doors:
Three of them lead to the courtyard of the mosque,
Two doors lead to the prayer place, with a main dome 43 meters high and 23.5 meters in diameter, around which eight smaller domes are distributed.
The internal section of the mosque:
The inner section is a rectangle with side lengths of 64 * 72 m.
The interior section of the Blue Mosque contains a large number of stained glass windows, numbering 260 windows, and the mosque is helped by many chandeliers painted with gold water and decorated with crystals and precious stones,
In addition to the walls of the mosque clad with more than 20,000 hand-carved ceramics in blue (more than 50 designs of various inscriptions) brought from Iznik and Kutahya.
What distinguishes the Blue Mosque is that it is the only one in Turkey that includes six minarets that express and describe the beauty of ancient Ottoman architecture.
The Blue Mosque was named by this name because of the blue tiles and blue inscriptions on the mosque, which draws attention to the blue color that adorns its prestige and illuminates the heart of the mosque with blue light like the sky.
The Blue Mosque and all mosques, museums, churches and all archaeological and historical buildings in Turkey had a great impact on supporting tourism in Turkey and thus supporting the Turkish economy,
As the number of tourists arriving in Turkey is increasing significantly, as well as the Turkish government is striving to make the necessary efforts to attract the largest number of tourists, not only for foreign tourism, but also for domestic tourism, and has made the situation comfortable and beautiful for all those wishing to go to such places, in addition to the satisfaction and religious pride offered by these monuments towards them, so the Blue Mosque is not limited to tourists, but the residents of Istanbul go to it to perform the five prayers on a daily basis.
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Editorial Mersat Real Estate Team©