Photos taken by paulymx

St Sophia interior

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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The dome of Mahmut II tomb

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Mahmut II tomb interior

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Mahmut II tomb interior

The tomb has 52 coffins for family members, mostly the young princes who were murdered upon Mahmut's death. For the first two centuries the Ottomans practiced fraticide as a means of avoiding civil war. The successful claimaint to the throne had all his brothers and male relatives executed upon his accession

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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The fountain of Sultan Ahmet

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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View towards Galata from the Bosphorus

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Rumeli Hisar

The Fortress of Europe. This massive fortress was built by Mehmet II as the first stage in his planned siege of Constantinople.

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Ortokay Mosque

A beautiful baroque era mosque just below the Ataturk Bridge

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Yeni Camii

The "New Mosque" was started in 1597 but not finished until 1663

• Date: 21 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Cafe in the cistern at Suliemaniye

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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The Aquaduct of Valens

This massive Aquaduct runs down the Istanbul pennisula and was built in the mid 4th century. Notice the old guys playing backgammon under the arches

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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A decorated tomb

Can't remember the name of this mosque complex. There were two tombs in a bad state of repair in the forecourt

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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The Tulip Mosque

Our hotel was directly behind the mosque, which was being restored at the time.

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Sultanahmet Camii at night

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Keyrek Mosque / Church of the Pantocrator

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Tomb of Sulieman the Magnificent

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Tomb of Sulieman the Magnificent

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Isletmet Cay Cafe

In an old mosque/tomb complex

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Brassware in the Grand Bazaar

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Bodrum Mosque

Former Byzantine church

• Date: 20 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Istanbul, Turkey: gallery
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Amir Orhan's tomb, Bursa

Orhan, the second Ottoman leader, was originally buried in a small Byzantine church next to his father. The two churches were toppled in an earthquake in 1855 and replaced with these tombs built to the same design

• Date: 19 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Bursa, Turkey: gallery
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Muradiye tomb complex

• Date: 19 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Bursa, Turkey: gallery
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Inside the Murad Camii

• Date: 19 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Bursa, Turkey: gallery
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Muradiye Mosque and tomb complex, Bodrum

The mosque of Murad the Great

• Date: 19 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Bursa, Turkey: gallery
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Tomb of Prince Cem

Richly decorated tomb for Prince Cem (and other family members). Cem escaped the assassins his brother sent to kill him and ended up living (and dying) in Naples.

• Date: 19 October 2009
• Photographer: paulymx: gallery
• Location: Bursa, Turkey: gallery
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