This city's other best known mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque because of the more than 21,000 blue-and-white Iznik tiles used inside, was completed in 1617 right across from Hagia Sophia. Some people think that this imposing edifice, with its six tall, fluted minarets and five domes, was the last great mosque built during the classical period.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Adnan Ijaz´ post 10 of the World´s Most Magnificent Mosques.
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