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11-MAR-2006

Bosporus trip 0178

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Unless I am mistaken this is the Cihangir mosque from 1890 on the sapot where in 1720 a Sinan mosque was burned down. It then would be for Abdül Hamit II. The Strolling Through Istanbul; Redhouse Press book calls it "exceptionally ugly".

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