At the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif, it is easy to see why ... one of Shah's assistants is making clay by pouring water over a mound of earth on the floor and treading on it to get the right ...

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

The Blue Mosque, in particular, has very cleverly taken that concept and incorporated it within more traditional Islamic design, where the high flat platform is used as a base to build the mosque ...

Completed in the mid-15th century, the Blue Mosque of Tabriz (better known as Masjed-e Kabud) was among the most glorious buildings of the time. Once built, artists took a further 25 years to cover ...

The double-domed mosque, tiled in kaleidoscopic patterns of cobalt, ocher, white, and turquoise, went up in the 15th century; 10,000 white pigeons are said to roost among its arches and columns. Every ...

The Blue Mosque, which attracts tourists with the beauty of its tiles, has 21,043 tiles in more than 50 designs produced in Iznik and Kutahya workshops in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

TABRIZ, Iran . The "Blue Mosque" in Tabriz, the capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan province, is a monument from the Karakoyunlu era and is one of the country’s most important historical buildings ...

Their impressive minarets and domes dominate the skyline of Istanbul and no tour to the ancient Turkish city is complete without a visit to its two most important landmarks -- the Hagia Sophia and ...

Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) is ranked #1 out of 19 things to do in Istanbul. See pictures and our review of Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii).

It's the national mosque of Turkey, and before going inside, After the Hagia Sofia, President Obama walked the short block to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque.