Mosques (717 Subjects)
Map outlining the author's journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, and showing the main sights of the route.
Muezzin. Women from Izmir and Thessaloniki. From: Giuseppe Antonelli (ed.), Galleria Universale di Tutti i Popoli del Mondo, c. 1838-1842.
Alaca Imaret or Isak Pasa Mosque in Thessaloniki.
Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. From The Illustrated London News, May 1876.
The Great Fire in the bazaar of Thessaloniki, 4 September 1830. View of Thessaloniki from a minaret. From Le Monde Illustré, 1890.
The Great Fire in the bazaar of Thessaloniki, 4 September 1890. Scenes before and after the fire. Fire sufferers' encampment. From L'illustration, 11 October 1890.
The bazaar of Larissa.
Woman from Poland.
Giannitsa.
Bitola.
Tirana.
View of lake Eğirdir.
Mosque on the outskirts of Ephesus.
View from Nafplio, Bourtzi in the background. View of the Mycenean Acropolis of Tiryns.
View of Istanbul from Pera. Valens aqueduct in the background. To the left of the aqueduct, the mosques of Suleiman I and Ahmed I, and Hagia Sophia.
The mosque of Sultan Ahmed I and the Byzantine Hippodrome. In the foreground, the Obelisk of Theodosius I, and the Obelisk of Constantine VII. Between them, the Serpent column, that is, the bronze base of the golden tripod of Plataeae, originally in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.
A street in Çorlu, close to Tekirdağ. In the background, the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I, built by architect Kassim and the mosque's Külliye, built by architect Sinan.
Ottoman market at Lüleburgaz in Turkey.
Karavanserai at Lüleburgaz in Turkey.
View of the village Kaskerat, which according to the author is located in eastern Thrace, close to Edirne and 35 leagues from Istanbul.
The village of Eski Istambul, near Kirklareli (in Greek Saranta Ekklisies).
Kirklareli (in Greek Saranta Ekklisies), Eastern Thrace.
View of the port of Latakia, the ancient Laodicea.
The mosque built on the site of the temple of Dionysus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).
View of the mosque built on the site of the temple of Bacchus in Latakia (ancient Laodicea).
Reconstruction of Salomon's temple in Jerusalem.
Adam and Eved according to Islamic tradition. Prophet Muhammad ascends to heaven. Drawing of the Mosque of Mecca (Al-Masjid al-Haram) and the Holy Rock (Kaaba).
Open-air praying site; such sites existed on all big commercial routes in the Ottoman Empire.
Rites of passage in the Muslim cemetery of Eyüp, Istanbul.
Official prayer to celebrate the Birth of Prophet Muhammad (Mawlid) in the presence of the Sultan and other supreme officials, at the mosque of Sultan Ahmed, Istanbul.