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Blue Mosque At Night. You notice the New Years lights twinkling in the distance outside vacant storefronts. 9242020 Hand-painted blue tiles in this mosque make the mosques interior walls stand out and when the night falls the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosques five main domes six minarets and eight secondary domes. Blue Mosque reflected on pool Istanbul Turkey Istanbul at night with Blue Mosque on left New Mosque on right and Galata Bridge across Golden Horn Turkey Europe Sultan Ahmed Mosque Blue Mosque Turkey Istanbul. Istanbuls Blue Mosque singing us to sleep at night.
Modest dress is required and women must cover their heads. You notice the New Years lights twinkling in the distance outside vacant storefronts. A night time visit offers a wonderfully different perspective. Mosque of Sultan Ahmet aka. The Blue Mosque is a commonly photographed landmark in Istanbul but the site to me really comes alive at night when many of the crowds have dispersed to their hotels hostels and homes. Lunchtime prayers on Friday the Muslim holy day are busiest of all and the mosque can be closed for an hour or more.
So taking a tour of the Blue Mosque was the first thing we did on our first day in Istanbul.
Contact your company to license this image. The Blue Mosque Called Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish is an historical mosque in Istanbul. But if you are someone who appreciates a different kind of beauty and atmosphere that emerges after dusk then visit the mosque at night when there are hardly any tourists about and you have the whole place to admire at leisure. The Blue mosque is closed to non-worshippers for about half an hour for the five daily prayers. Safety How YouTube works Test new features. The mosque is known as the Blue Mosque because of blue tiles surrounding the walls of interior designMosque was built between 1609 and 1616 years during the rule of Ahmed I.