Sultanahmet Camii, Turkey

Blue Mosque or the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is one of the most important sights of Istanbul and the greatest religious landmark of the world. In this mosque there are six minarets, it is located in the heart of the historical district of Istanbul, next to the other landmarks. The construction of the mosque lasted from 1609 to 1616, the height of its dome is 43 meters, at a time 10 000 people can stay within the walls of the mosque.

The mosque was built by order of Sultan Ahmed I, who suffered several military defeats and wanted to propitiate Allah in that way. When the construction of the mosque began, the Sultan was only 19 years old, during the construction he never won a major military victory, the money for the construction of the mosque sultan had to sacrifice from his own treasury. The mosque is very difficult from an architectural point of view, there are 260 windows in the building. Initially, glasses for windows were brought from Venice, but they could not survive to this day.

Inside the skillfully carved marble and art painting adorn the mosque. Originally the beautiful Sultan Ahmed mosque was a sophisticated complex of many buildings, on its territory, there was a caravanserai, various charitable institutions, a hospital and a madrassa, and also many other subsidiary buildings. Some of them managed to survive to the present day, and a significant part of the buildings was destroyed. In addition to the mosque itself, its magnificent courtyard, decorated with arcades, impresses. And its area is equal to the area of the mosque itself. Next - Ismoil Somoniy Maqbarasi