Sultan Ahmad Mosque (Istanbul)

Work Hours: Sunday through Saturday 9:00 to 19:00

Collector staggering to its size, its design, elegance, and is one of the most beautiful mosques not only in Turkey, but in the Muslim world as a whole and admired Alabbar Turks and Arabs and foreign tourists, is located in Sultanahmet Square in the old town, south of the Hagia Sophia Museum and the eastern Byzantine horse field ( Hippodrome).
Built between the years 1018 and 1020 Hijrah at the hands of a Turkish architects months Engineer Mohammad Agha, a pupil months architects Turkish Mimar Sinan. It is the only mosque in Turkey that contains six beacons high, three of which are distributed to the right and three on the opposite side, and the dome is considered one of the greatest domes in Turkey.

Mosque of Sultan Ahmed Suhail

Interestingly, in the story of building the mosque is that it was an attempt of Sultanahmet to erase the impact of the defeat of the armies of the Empire in the fronts Persian Aloostrohnjarah, and that he wanted to be the greatest of all mosques in the previous sultans of reminded him of people like to leave the greatest impact on the city and not like someone who was in his day the greatest setback of war.


 The mosque decorated inside off characteristic of different finishes ranging from gold and art engraving depicting some of the verses in a finite creativity.

Mosque of Sultan Ahmed Suhail

Access to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed Suhail it so easy by taking tram line T1  and get off at "Sultan Ahmed" station.