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| 20,000 tiles of 700 different designs decorate the interior. So great was the demand for tiles, a moratorium on tile orders was decreed by the sultan from 1609-1616 , as every tile made in Turkey was used in the design. |
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| View of the Blue Mosque, taken from Hagia Sophia. The 19 year old sultan requested a minaret made of gold (altin), which was misunderstood to mean six (alti) minarets. This was considered presumptuous, because the only other mosque with six minarets was Mecca. The sultan made amends by sending his architect to Mecca to add a seventh minaret! |
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| Amazing dome, 43 meters high, ringed with quotes from the Qur’an. |
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| Interior, taken right before Friday prayer service, which is required for Muslim men in the Holy Qur’an. |
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