Worshippers at the site praised the new mosque, which combines Ottoman ... Plans in 2013 to build the mosque in Istanbul's Gezi Park, in the Taksim Square area, sparked a wave of protests ...

"The Kariye mosque in its new form will remain open to everyone ... ruling on the UNESCO-protected Hagia Sophia cathedral in ...

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“More than a hundred new mosques have been built in this ... Ottoman style suggests it has been modeled on the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The Heart of Chechnya mosque has a capacity for 10,000 ...

Istanbul is a high-stakes dice-rolling game, in which you will race around a crowded bazaar in the hopes of obtaining the ...

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The bulk of Istanbul’s main attractions like the Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar — as well as the majority of the city’s five-star hotels — sit on the European side of the ...

The neighborhood is also home to Istanbul University's main campus, plus 16th- and 17th-century religious sites like the Süleymaniye Mosque and the New Mosque. Visitors who travel northwest of ...

The enticing smell of grilled corn and chestnuts wafted from Hakan Deniz's red and gold food cart near a mosque in Istanbul's ...

But once you’ve visited the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, taking a ferry ride ... Kadıköy is to Istanbul what Brooklyn is to New York City; it’s a lot more residential in comparison ...

The enticing smell of grilled corn and chestnuts wafted from Hakan Deniz's red and gold food cart near a mosque in Istanbul's old city. But local customers are hard to come by these days.