{"id":2743,"date":"2016-09-19T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2016-12-23T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:31:12","slug":"istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lineandbox.com\/blog\/travel\/euro\/istanbul","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n
City:<\/th>\nIstanbul, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weather:<\/th>\n85\u00b0, sunny<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Site:<\/th>\nBlue Mosque<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Activity:<\/th>\nlooking in awe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Day 8: The Blue Mosque or\u00a0Sultan Ahmed Mosque, was our first stop on our whirlwind tour of Istanbul. It was modeled closely to the older, more famous, Hagia Sophia that it sits directly across from but began and continues to be a functioning Mosque where as Hagia Sophia began as a Greek Orthodox Church, morphed to a mosque, and is now a museum.<\/p>\n

Those columns are hugeeeee. They are called “elephants feet”.<\/p>\n

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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Istanbul: Blue Mosque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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