Fatih Mosque

There are many mosques in Turkey, and to be honest, after you've seen a few of them, it's like you've seen them all. But a particularly cool one that I went to near the beginning of the semester is Fatih Mosque. From Wikipedia,

The Fatih Mosque Complex (in Turkish, the Fati Camii or Conqueror's Mosque) is a large mosque with its many dependencies in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. Fatih Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror had the complex constructed by the architect Atik Sinan in 1463-1470, on the site of the former Church of the Holy Apostles, which was demolished in favor of it. It was the largest example of Turkish-Islamic architecture to that date and represented an important stage in the development of classic Turkish architecture. The original mosque was destroyed by the earthquake of 1766; the current mosque dates from 1767.

For more information, you can go here. And here are some pictures:



I went to this mosque twice. The first time was when I had to go to the police station in some faraway part of Istanbul at the beginning of the semester to apply for my residence permit. A group of students and I were at the station for the whole morning because it took them so long to process everything! But luckily, during that morning, we were also able to leave the station for a while to see this. Unfortunately, the police had confiscated my camera because they weren't allowed in the station, and I had forgotten to get it back, so I couldn't take pictures at that time. Luckily, though, we ended up visiting the mosque a second time several weeks later. To view the full picture gallery, click here.


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