1 BLUE MOSQUE
his Ottoman-era structure is best known by its colloquial colour-themed moniker, owing to the tens of thousands of blue Iznik tiles that adorn its interiors. Officially it is called the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, named after ruler Ahmed I, who commissioned the monument as a marker of imperial strength – hence the dramatic curved domes and six minarets stretching to the skyline. The mosque was designed by architect Sedefkar Mehmed Agha and constructed between
