Tag Archives: Turkey
The Blue Mosque
It is one of the most visited tourist sites in Istanbul, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, commonly referred to as The Blue Mosque. Of course it was a must-see when I visited Istanbul a year ago. I have visited dozens, maybe hundreds of churches in my travels over the years but I have been in very […]
The Dark Church
They call it “the dark church” because it gets very little natural light. That is a good thing – the dark interior means that the frescoes on the ceiling and walls are still vivid more than a thousand years after they were first painted. My son spent the third year of his undergraduate degree studying […]
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