The call to prayer is performed live. There is something in the call that is changed daily so it has to be live. The big difference is that there is not a guy with really firm thighs who climbs the minaret and sings at the top of his lungs!
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Sultanahmet Mosque
Also on the list of the 3 big tourist attractions in Istanbul is the Sultanahmet Mosque also known as the Blue Mosque. Out of all of the mosques that I saw in Istanbul the Blue Mosque is really the most spectacular, but it also has a line of tourists worthy of Walt Disney World. And the inside smells like feet due to all of the shoeless tourists!
The BLUE Mosque
Notice that this mosque has six minarets. Normally they have four minarets. There is a story that I heard that the architect misheard the Sultan when designing the mosque and confused the word for golden with the word for six. After the Sultan saw that his new mosque had six minarets, he promptly had the architect killed. I am not sure if the story is true or not (the words for golden and six are very similar in Turkish), but it makes for a great urban legend if it is not true!
Assholes of the Ayasofya
As people become more and more entitled and oblivious, the experience of being a tourist is becoming frustrating. These are photos I took at the Ayasofya of people touching antiquities, standing on them, walking in front of my camera, standing or sitting in front of things that people are trying to photograph, and other obnoxious forms of behavior. So rude!
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