Istanbul 5--Suleymaniye Mosque

Frequently consider one of the four greatest mosques in Istanbul, Suleymaniye Mosque was designed to compliment Hagia Sophia, which was built a thousand years before. Below are several pictures of Suleymaniye Mosque. The interior of the mosque was closed for renovation.

Other notable mosques that we visited include Hagia Sophia, Eyup Sultan Mosque, Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque), and Yeni Mosque (New Mosque). I am not including pictures of all of those mosques in this blog, because it rained one day and I did not carry a camera, another day I forgot the camera, a couple Pat did not get to visit because she gave a presentation at a conference and I don't want to rub it in, and you cannot take pictures inside the mosques anyway. If you only have time to visit one mosque, visit both Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. The immenseness and history of Hagia Sophia is simply amazing, and the thousands of blue tiles in the Blue Mosque are absolutely beautiful.