Sacred Places
29 places found
IslamSüleymaniye Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
The great imperial mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent on Istanbul's Third Hill, designed by Mimar Sinan and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
IslamSultan Ahmed Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
The seventeenth-century imperial mosque of Sultan Ahmed I in Istanbul, popularly called the Blue Mosque for its luminous interior tilework and counted among the masterpieces of Ottoman architecture.
IslamTemple Mount
· Palestine · mosque
The ancient hill at the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, holiest place in Judaism and home to the Islamic al-Aqsa compound including the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
IslamUmayyad Mosque
· Syria · mosque
The eighth-century Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria, one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world and venerated as the resting place of the head of John the Baptist.
IslamZeyrek Mosque
· Turkey · mosque
An Istanbul mosque housed within the former Byzantine Monastery of the Pantokrator, the finest surviving example of Middle Byzantine architecture in Constantinople.