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Accommodation near the Blue Mosque

 One of the first pieces of advice you'll receive in the tourist information centers of Istanbul is that from your accommodation near the Blue Mosque you walk around this beautiful building before you enter. It is opposite the Sultanahmet square from where it's possible to sit and contemplate the magnificent exterior architecture. From your accommodation near the Blue Mosque you'll see that it is the only mosque circled by six minarets. It was built under orders of the Sultan Ahmet Camii I on top of the foundations of the old Byzantine imperial palace. As you arrive from your accommodation near the Blue Mosque you'll see the small museum of carpets and upholstery to its left and behind that a mosaic museum.

As you arrive at the entrance from your accommodation near the Blue Mosque you must take off your shoes and if you are not Muslim must enter to the right. Entry is free and Muslims come to pray here five times a day for twenty minutes each time. As you walk from accommodation near the Blue Mosque you will be following the route to the meeting point of the caravans that regularly made the pilgrimage to Meca.

If the building is amazing from the outside then once you enter it's even more stunning. It's for this reason that it is recommended that you arrive on foot from your accommodation near the Blue Mosque. In this way you will be able to contemplate the huge doorway before crossing the patio with its 26 granite columns and 30 domes in ascending order. The interior decoration (for which 21 043 tiles were used) reaches to the height of the windows where the tiles that comprise the elegant drawings are almost all blue (which gives the Mosque its name), white and green. Between May and September as you make your way from your accommodation near the Blue Mosque you'll enjoy a sound and light show which tells the story of the zone in different languages and spectacularly illuminates the Blue Mosque.