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The mosques in the Marmara Region are all
a sign of the cultural heritage of the Ottoman Empire. These mosques
have been designed beautifully with the world’s finest material.
Their architecture is designed by the most able people of the
Ottoman era.
Apart from other worth seeing locations and attraction in the
Marmara Region, the mosques here are also a treat for the visitors
and tourists. They tell what kind of culture the people had and how
the used to live. The beautifully designed architecture here at the
mosques is surely something out of this world.
The mosques at the Marmara Region are all the efforts of the great
architects working in the Ottoman era. Tourists, archeologists and
people who are interested in learning various cultures should come
here and mesmerize themselves with the beauty of the mosques here.
Marmara Region is a place that should be visited for sure if you are
paying a visit to turkey. Many tourists as well as families visit
turkey for exploring various destinations located here. If you talk
about exploring turkey, then there are certainly many places here
that are worth exploring.
Turkey apart from many other places is famous for its mosques too.
As we are specially talking about the Marmara Region, there are a
number of famous mosques here that have great importance for tourism
in Turkey.
Let’s first begin with talking about the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. It is
located in Istanbul near Hagia Sophia. It sure has great importance
in the history of Turkey. It has 6 minarets that are quite high. The
mosque from the inside is covered with the sheet of blue and white
tiles due to which it is called the Blue Mosque. Mehmet was the
person who designed the architecture of this mosque and it was built
between 1609 and 1616. During summer time, this mosque hosts a light
and sound show.
When it comes to promotion of tourism, Turkey sure has a number of
attractions that can attract tourists from all across the world to
explore the beauty of the Marmara Region and learn its cultural
heritage.
Now let’s move on to the Selimiye mosque here. Sultan Selim II
ordered to construct this mosque and its construction finished in
1574. Mimar Sinan was the person who was the architect of this
mosque. He was the chief Ottoman architect for eight decades and
that was the time when he designed the architect of this mosque. The
Selimiye mosque is a part of a complex as it is surrounded by a
complex. Basically it is located at the outside of the courtyard.
The courtyard is covered with floral pattern tiles. This courtyard
holds the highest minarets in the world with the biggest domes.
Another mosque built by Mimar Sinan in the time between 1539 and 538
was the Luleburgaz Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque Fountain. It was
constructed on the order of Sokollu Mehmet Pasha. This mosque is one
the finest mosques constructed by the craftsmen of the Ottoman time.
This mosque consists of 22 rooms. The mosque has Baroque style roof
and this style was the one that was much common during the reign of
Sultan Mehmet II.
Another great mosque built during the period of 1339 to 1340 is the
Orhan Gazi mosque. It was constructed by the orders of Orhan Gazi.
It was the year 1413 when Karmanoglu Mehmet Bey damaged some of the
parts of this mosque. On the orders of Celebi Sultan Mehmet, Bayezid
Pasa repaired the damages. This mosque is located in Bursa. It had
great importance in the Ottoman era. It shows what the Ottoman
culture was. The style of the soup kitchen, bath, medrese, mosque
and the buildings there are quite royal and worth seeing. They tell
what kind of architectural brains the people of that era had.
Other mosques in the Marmara Region that are worth visiting are the
Sulemaniye mosque, Fatih mosque, Cedi Ali Pasa Mosque, Rustem Pasha
Mosque, Eyup Sultan Mosque, Bayazid Mosque and more. If you have
planned to visit Turkey, visiting the mosques here in the Marmara
Region will be a thing that you will be thrilled to do for sure.
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