Istanbul City Tour - Turkey

Sultan Ahmet - The Blue Mosque

The Sultan Ahmet Mosque

Our customer kindly invited my colleague and me to an Istanbul City Tour and a Bosphorus River Cruise. The seightseen tour started at the blue mosque or also called the Sultan Ahmet.

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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the national mosque of Turkey, and is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1923. The mosque is one of several mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has become one of the greatest tourist attractions of Istanbul.