The First-Timer · Ece · Istanbul
Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque)
It's free, it's a working mosque, and it faces Hagia Sophia across a garden. I always pair the two in one morning.
Six minarets and twenty thousand blue İznik tiles — the postcard mosque, free to enter, still in daily use.
— Ece, The First-Timer
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