Built in the image of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. Salman (CC BY-SA 3.0) ... As for the interior, it is decorated with white marble and gold-painted verses from the Quran.

Read our Telegraph Travel expert guide to Istanbul, ... famed for its glorious blue Iznik tilework interior. ... It's a short walk across the former chariot racing arena to the Blue Mosque. ...

The interior gleams with over 20,000 of the famous blue on white Iznik tiles from which the site's unofficial name (it’s really the Sultanahmet Mosque) derives.

In Istanbul, a center of culture, commerce and power for more than 2,000 years, the past never feels distant. Yet ...

Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii) is ranked #6 out of 19 things to do in Istanbul. See pictures and our review of Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii).

It’s hardly surprising that Istanbul boasts one of the world’s richest cuisines – it’s superbly located at the confluence of the Mediterranean and Black Sea worlds, with easy access to the ...