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To: Red Steel

I’ve been in the Blue Mosque, too. That chandelier is awesome.


9 posted on 08/20/2009 10:34:41 AM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani

So have I. It is right next to Hagia Sophia. It is instructive that the Turkish government did not return it to the Christian Community even after Attturk “secularized” the state, but made it a museum. The small Christian community still has a hard time in Turkey.


10 posted on 08/20/2009 3:01:17 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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