If you close your eyes you could easily be in the Haram……….. Yet when I open my eyes I am in Yeni Valide: the Queen mothers mosque built on the island of the Sultanas (Uskudar) by her obedient son, the Sultan of the Ottomans. As you get off the ferry from Aminonu you see two …
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- The first bridge across the Bosphorus joining European and Asian Istanbul
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- The womens section up on the mezzanine
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- The Imams talk as seen through the lattice upstairs in the womens section
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- The white dots near the minaret are the seagulls encircling like a tawaf around the Kaaba
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- Approaching Yeni Valide at night
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- Approaching Yeni Valide in the daytime
