In 2019 I received a copy of a book I had contributed several pictures to (including the front page), Ottoman Baroque by Ünver Rüstem. Of course I read it, but even after a superficial scanning of its structure I found, to my horror, that even after 60 visits to Istanbul there were a few mosques, baroque ones and fine examples at that, that I had never spotted, let alone visited. So during my 61st visit I corrected this, and I also took more pictures at the ones I already had galleries of, but that required some extra attention to detail, like this one.

The Nusretiye mosque (originally called “Nusret”, that is Victory) was built between 1822 and 1826 by Mahmut II, it's architect being Kirkor Balyan, the founder of a large family of Armenian architects. Though its inspiration is the Selimiye Mosque in Üsküdar (that is in the Ottoman Baroque style) the Nusretiye is “exhibiting a style that has moved away from the Baroque to an Ottoman interpretation of Neoclassicism.” (quote from Ottoman Baroque). In 2019 during some evening stroll I took some pictures of the interior and the fine courtyard to its east, the ones from October were taken during daytime.