We started (shoeless) with the Blue Mosque, built for Sultan Ahmet I by Mehmet Ağa between 1609 and 1616, the grandest of the great mosques on the line of hills visible from the Golden Horn:
We started (shoeless) with the Blue Mosque, built for Sultan Ahmet I by Mehmet Ağa between 1609 and 1616, the grandest of the great mosques on the line of hills visible from the Golden Horn:
I always read your blog with interest and pleasure, as you share with your readers the quirky, beautiful and often overlooked delights of your travels around London and elsewhere. I hesitate to point it out to you, and perhaps by now you will have realised, that the Sultan Ahmet (Blue) mosque is not on the Golden Horn. However, I hope you do see the wonderful Suleimaniye mosque, which is on the Golden Horn, and a little jewel, the Rustem Pasha mosque, near the Spice Bazaar.
Yes, I did realise it’s not on the Golden Horn, but hoped I’d get away with a bit of poetic licence ! Will hope to take up your other suggestions today. Charles
I look forward to reading about them and other places you might see. It is such an interesting city, and as with London, one can never really get to know all of it.