So on first Travel essay, I'm gonna amaze you with this great big mosque. It's the Blue Mosque at Istanbul. See the picture above ? Yes that's what I'm talking about. The wonderful is located in Istanbul at Turkey. Well this mosque is also called as " Sultan Ahmad's mosque ". Wanna know how's history ? Lets find out !
History
This mosque was started to be build at 1609 and finished at 1612. As the name of the mosque the one who like to build this mosque was Sultan Ahmad I. History says that Sultan Ahmad build this mosque to compete the Hagia Sopia, a building that used to be a church in the past.
The mosque is likely to be an Imperial mosque to the Ottoman kingdom. The mosque is also a place for the emperor's tomb, madrasah( likely a muslim school ), and a hospice. It's also have been a great tourist attraction.
How's The Blue Mosque look like ?
The mosque has six towers. Its one of two mosques in Turkey that has six towers, the other one is at Adana.
You can see the photo of the mosque an its tall great towers below.
This mosque got a very beautiful view, besides the beautiful view the mosque is also fulled of wonderful buildings. One of them is the Aya Sofia building. Aya Sofia was a Cathedral on the Constantinopel age then formed into a mosque in 500 years then now turned into a museum. Another wonderful building is the Toptaki, where there are some Rassulullah's heritage objects.
Anyway this mosque is called as the blue mosque because of its dome.
How's the Interior ?
You can see some picture about the interiors below :
Well viewers thanks a lot for your time viewing my blog, thats all i want to deliver about the enormous mosque :)
Essay Sources :
http://zulfikri.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/mesjid-biru-blue-mosque-istambul-turki/http://id.thecircumference.org/blue-mosque
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Sultan_Ahmed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Ahmed_Mosque
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