Blue Mosque architecture in Istanbul, Turkey
August 31, 2010
Blue Mosque architecture in Istanbul, Turkey
This comes from Iznik ceramics, ceramic-producing areas in Turkey first class. Dominated blue pottery, so that the mosque was nicknamed the Blue Mosque. Sultan Ahmed Mosque interior beautiful mosque. The mosque is located in Istanbul, Turkey. Interior of the mosque was decorated with more than 20,000 handmade ceramic with more than 50 different designs. There are marble pillars and more than 200 stained glass windows with various designs that emit light from the outside with the help of chandeliers. The ostrich egg chandeliers placed to prevent the spider made a nest there.
Other decorations are calligraphic verses the Qur’an which is mainly made by Seyyid Kasim Gubari, one of the best calligraphers of the time. Important element in this mosque is the mihrab is made of marble carved with decorative stalactites and panel inscriptive double on it. Surrounding wall filled with ceramics. The mosque is designed to be in conditions that most full ones, all in the mosque can still see and hear the imam.
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