Sacred Places
29 places found
IslamSüleymaniye Mosque
, Turkey
The great imperial mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent on Istanbul's Third Hill, designed by Mimar Sinan and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
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IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque
, Turkey
The seventeenth-century imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I in Istanbul, popularly called the Blue Mosque for its luminous interior tilework and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
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IslamTemple Mount
, Palestine
The ancient hill at the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, holiest place in Judaism and home to the Islamic al-Aqsa compound including the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
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IslamUmayyad Mosque
, Syria
The eighth-century Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria, one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world and venerated as the resting place of the head of John the Baptist.
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IslamZeyrek Mosque
, Turkey
An Istanbul mosque housed within the former Byzantine Monastery of the Pantokrator, the finest surviving example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.
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