My Visit to Turkey. The Blue Mosque

Inside the mosque you can see the prayer niche and big stair thing.

 

I went to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul and it was very nice. It was so big and so pretty and the inside was packed with visitors. All the ladies have to wear something on their heads to show respect and the men had to have long trousers. Everybody had to take their shoes off and carry them in a plastic bag. My mum carried my shoes because she is the best!

We had to take the shoes off because the carpet has to be clean for the people who pray there. The inside was beautiful to look at and the tiles have pictures. A lot of the tiles were blue because they thought it was a powerful  colour. The real name of the mosque is The Sultan Ahmet mosque, it is on Sultan Ahmet square near Hagia Sophia.

The rarest two animals ever. The white spotted Boo and his white spotted brother. Grrrrr! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Inside the mosque we saw a big stair case that the imam climbs to talk to the people, it is called a minbar.

The mihrab is the prayer niche to bounce the sound back. The columns were called elephant feet columns because they were big and strong to support the building.

Fat cats are everywhere in Turkey. LOL!!