The Blue Mosque is a striking memento of Istanbul ... ingeniously carving out the interior space,” Mason writes. The decision to include six minarets on the Sultan Ahmet Mosque caused outcry ...

The Blue Mosque is a striking memento of Istanbul’s nearly 500-year stint as the imperial ... “In both, a cluster of domes and semi-domes around the main central dome forms the body of the mosque, ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s, the Blue ...

Blue is also the colour one of the most distinct mosques in the UAE. The Ali Mohammed Sadeq Albulushi Mosque, often referred to as the Blue Mosque, uses the colour in a variety of ways – for the ...

watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour and touches of gum arabic on blue–grey paper ...

also known as the Blue Mosque, in Hamburg to confiscate cash and a black Audi vehicle. Nancy Faeser, the German interior minister, announced that she was banning the organisation that runs the ...