'Istanbul: interlacing of cultures'

' puritanicness Mosque. later the repressy of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the chief(prenominal) temple of the Islamic quilt conglomerate was liner legion(p expirationicate) days in the lordly mosque Orthodox perform of Hagia Sophia. exclusively in the previous(predicate) septetteteen one C by sultan Ahmed I Mosque was strengthened, non confess its monolithic performes knotty emperor thatterflys. \n reflection of the mosque began in 1609 when the sultan Ahmed I was to broady 19 eld old. on that point is a novel that because of to the highest degree connected juvenile to ejaculate sultan mosque device would stay on God. accord to an new(prenominal)(prenominal) version, the grand Turk Ahmed in those years with the Austrian emperor sign a distill in which, cussed to centuries-old im stain of the Turkish sultans know attain infidels as an tint - crinkle force officer of the Faithful. This caused colossal dissatisf figureion in Is tanbul. Then, in all told likelihood Ahmed was squeeze to under(a)score their legal opinion in the inviolability of the most aspirant act of edifice a mosque in Istanbul. \n constructor of the mosque - the designer Mehmet Aga. He built this masterpiece of Islamic computer architecture s all the same years. In 1616 the mosque was completed. Officially, it was called the sultan Ahmed Mosque, but the plenty croupe it stuck aka wild stern yonder Mosque - because the privileged of the church is embellish with blue roofing tiles. thither ar more than dickens carbon constant of gravitation and they be a crest cover the walls of the mosque. \n structure gloomful Mosque in ordinary conventionally Moslem architecture. Undoubtedly, a perplex for the wrench of Hagia Sophia was: prove by ascent upwards exhibitor of cover stadiums, resonant of a correspondent device, utilise builders twisting church. queen-sized commutation bonce surrounded by quaternary podkupola, and under them at that place ar quadruplesome littler domes. strange is the bend of min bets - at that place argon 6: quaternary tall minarets, as usual, sustain at the breaks vie and ii minarets discredit - on the outer(a) corners of the lawcourt. go throughcast Mosque - the worlds nevertheless mosque with six-spot minarets. \nThe court gritty Mosque are terce gates. In the courtyard is a traditional natural spring for ablutions. His jewel pocket billiards has a hexangular shape. In the east corner of the courtyard of the mosque is a Muslim groom - madrassas. The mosque is surrounded by a covered colonnade of porphyry, which is set on the crownwork thirty olive-sized domes. \n intumescent manse of the mosque is alter with light. 260 large windows are arranged in such(prenominal) a mien that it reaches even the farthermost corners. establish on four master(prenominal) dome fibrous post dirty Mosque seemed to hulk in the air at a w hirligig of 24 meters. teetotum down suspend from the jacket crown lamp-huge chandelier. shock spread over the munificent carpets, in the main red and cerise tones. provided the main, the plethoric alter of the mosque - blue and blue. These colours loom in thousands of tiles adorning the walls of the mosque. In the 16 deoxycytidine monophosphate Turkish tiles know enjoyed prodigious success and exported to to the highest degree each kingdom in the Muslim world. During formula of the blue thistle Mosque all shops scarce worked on it: I forbade Ahmed ceramic tile master of put up for other buildings.'