Guide 09 of 29
The Süleymaniye Mosque
İstanbul
Sinan's mature work and the whole infrastructure of a neighbourhood: mosque, four colleges, a hospital, a kitchen, a bathhouse and two tombs. Sixteen stops, about twenty-eight minutes.
Stops16
Duration17min
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The Weeping Column
Hagia Sophia · northwest corner
That column is darker than the others. Because it doesn't belong here — it was brought from Ephesus. For fifteen hundred years everyone touched the same spot, which is why the brass shines.
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