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We welcome you to our peace up on to two religions tour program Blue Mosque Guided tour . İn this Program we are going to try to explore the Sultanahmet Square with our Guests in about 4 to 6 hours.
By learning the History of Byzantine , Roman and Ottoman Empires , and also the Turkish principalities period’s islamic arts during the İslamic period in Anatolia and the Excellent architectural works of Great Empires .
We will meet with our Guests at the entrance of Hagia Sophia Mosque at 9:00 am
Every year Millions of visiters come to to see The Great Hagia Sophia Mosque. This creates a very long queue at the entrance . With our findistanbulguide team mates you dont have to worry about the queue at all. Because our Professional Guides will take you into the Museum with out any line. Hagia Sophia Muesum’s Administrators Created an Easy skip the line system for Professional tour guides.
Our Hagia Sophia Fast track tour will take approximately an hour , We will inform you about all the little details of the Museum. How it was built ? Who built it ? , where all the materials used in the building came from ? how many labors worked on it’s construction ? how many years it served as a Christian Cathedral , as an islamic mosque , and ofcourse when it turned to a museum etc. more and more ! Please be sure that you get all the answers of the questions you have in your head . than we are going to visit the
Basilica Cistern is the biggest and the most Famous Cistern in Istanbul. Located next to Hagia Sophia , it was built in the 6th century by the order of justinianus l. It has 336 columns in it and every column is 9 mt tall. The water comes 39 km away , from the Belgrade forests . The Roman people built Aqueduct just to bring the water. When we are inside the Basilica Cistern , The atmosphere of the place will turn your head . Two Medusa’s heads , plus the column forest will make you feel like you are in a Film set. Actually many Movies were taken here , for instance “ from Russia with love “ , “ Inferno “ and more …
after the Basilica Cistern we will walk toward the Blue Mosque :
The Blue Mosque or with Turkish “Sultan Ahmet Camii” is the last great Mosques on the classical Ottoman architecture style. It built between 1609 and 1616 by order from Sultan Ahmet. After it built, the Ottoman Architecture will adopt the Western Baroque architecture style in its buildings. That so the Mosque considers as the last witness on the Classical Ottoman architecture. It takes the name from
The rich and expensive turquoise tiles they used on the wall of the building .
in this building we will watch the muslims while they are worhipping . It is allowed to take photos inside. We will spend here Approximately 40 minutes.
Than will visit the Hippodrome.
Hippodrome was the center of Eastern Roman Empire for 1000 years as well as for the Ottoman Empire for 400 years. Today it is a place called SultanAhmet Meydanı, known worldwide as SultanAhmet Square and located in the heart of the historic peninsula of Istanbul. Just in between the Blue mosque and Turkish islamic arts Museum.
When we are in Hippodrom we will
See the Great Obelisk and also the serpentine column. Also will talk about the games and Revolutions held in the past in this Place.
After the Hippodrome
Our last visit will be to the Turkish Islamic Arts museum.
In the Museum there are lots of handmade impressive handicrafts that presents the beauty of the wood, porcelain, glass, metalwork and stone industries of the old Turkish principalities cultures. Also there is a large collection of exhibits, antiques and paintings of the fascinating Arabic calligraphy that you must check out. There are many hand writed books , cover of Kaaba ,and Vases and also handmade Turkish antique Carpets from 11,12,13 centuries.
The end of the tour will be at the Entrance of Islamic art Museum.