My Visits to Istanbul, Turkey

📍 (Istanbul) 🇹🇷. Istanbul is undoubtedly one of the favorite cities of its visitors and travelers alike due to many historical attractions and sites. Besides, this city is also rich in history and culture dating back three thousand years when humans started to settle-in this city whose earliest known name is Lygos.

There are plenty of decent write-ups about this city that you can find either through the internet or printouts. I could never surpass those nice write-ups due to differences in expressing a writer's point of view, nor, I claim to be an expert in both writing and traveling.

I just want to share the happy moments of my previous trips to this lovely city through the images to my family, children, friends, and to those whoever finds this reading enjoyable.

🕌 Inside view of the Blue Mosque.

The Blue Mosque or officially Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historic mosque and still serving the faithful as well as it is attracting large numbers of tourists. The mosque was constructed in 1609 during Sultan Ahmed I ruling.

🕌 Outside view of the Blue Mosque.

The Blue Mosque has six minarets, five main domes, and eight secondary domes. The design is the completion of centuries-old Ottoman's Muslim worship place development.

🏛️ Outside view of the Hagia Sophia.

The design of the Blue Mosque incorporates many Byzantine elements of the adjacent Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. 

Hagia Sophia is previously a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral. It turns to an Ottoman imperial mosque but now it's a museum called Ayasofya Müzesi neighboring the Blue Mosque. It was built in AD 537 at the reign of Justinian. The world's largest building and an engineering marvel of its time.

🏛️ Another view of the Hagia Sophia.

The Hagia Sophia is famous for its large dome.

🆒 Salutation entrance to the Second Courtyard of Topkapı Palace.

Topkapi Palace or Ṭopḳapu Sarāyı in Turkish which means 'Cannon Gate Palace' is a large museum located at the Fatih district of Istanbul. It once served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to 16th centuries.

🆒 Another view of the Topkapı Palace entrance.

I find it hard to locate free spots while taking pictures without photobomber due to the huge influx of visitors.

🆒 Taksim Square.

Finally, the Republic Monument seen in my back which was inaugurated in 1928 is located at Taksim Square. This monument commemorates the 5th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.

Taksim Square is situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul.©2020☺️

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