جولة اسطنبول الاوربية VİP رقم 1

🔹 Visit Sultan Ahmed Mosque:
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) is one of the most magnificent buildings in Türkiye. The building is not just a mosque, it is also a complex of social life. It contains a library, health and educational facilities.
Around the walls of this mosque there are many shops and a large green garden. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has one main dome, six minarets and eight secondary domes. The design is the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. It merges some Byzantine Christian elements in the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture.

🔹Visit the Hagia Sophia Mosque:
One of the greatest monuments in the world is located on the west bank of Istanbul. It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century AD (532-537) under the supervision of the Byzantine Emperor. In subsequent centuries, it became a mosque and museum in 1935 and a mosque again. The building reflects the religious changes that took place in the region over the centuries, with Islamic minarets and inscriptions as well as the opulent mosaics of Christianity.

🔹 Visit the Top Kaaba Museum:
A museum in Istanbul that displays the imperial collections of the Ottoman Empire and keeps an extensive collection of books and manuscripts in its library. The museum is housed in a palace that served as the administrative center and residence of the Ottoman imperial court. It opened as a museum in 1924, a year after the establishment of the Republic of Türkiye. The Topkapi Palace Museum is notable not only for its architecture and collections but also for the history and culture of the Ottoman Empire which visitors relive from this place.

🔹Visit the Grand Bazaar:
It was built during the reign of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror to serve the Hagia Sophia Mosque in 1461. Its construction lasted about four years, and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent expanded it. This market was exposed to an earthquake that affected it and was restored in 1894.
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar ranks high on most tourists' itineraries due to its size and variety of goods available. This mega market is the largest covered market in the world.

🔹 Visit the Egyptian market:
A 17th-century covered market known as the Egyptian Bazaar houses spice, food and textile shops. It is located in the heart of Istanbul, on the European side, in the Eminonu district. It is the second largest market in Istanbul after the Grand Bazaar. It was built in 1597 during the reign of Sultan Murad III.