Türkiye’s metropolitan Istanbul is also home to the country’s first six-minaret mosque, Blue Mosque. The mosque, called Sultanahmet Camii by Turks, was commissioned by Sultan Ahmet I in 1609 ...

From the outside, the structure’s six minarets and hulking dome ... in the district known as Sultanahmet District. The Blue Mosque’s location is near a number of other notable tourist sites ...

The mosque has six minarets 64 meters high, huge domes 24 meters in diameter, and more than 400 years of history. It is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic and world architecture.

The yellow-walled Four Seasons Sultanahmet puts ... to the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque that you feel like you could reach out and touch their iconic domes and minarets? Book this intimate hotel ...

The Islamic features — such as the mihrab, the minbar, and the four minarets outside — were added over the course of its history under the Ottomans. It remained as a mosque until 1935 when it ...

One of Sultanahmet's lesser-known mosques is also one of its most beautiful. Designed by the famous Ottoman imperial architect Mimar Sinan (who also designed the Süleymaniye Mosque) and completed ...