Mosques (717 Subjects)
View of Nagykanizas, Hungary. In the foreground, forces of the Holy Leagues attack the Ottoman army.
View of Jerusalem A. House of Pontius Pilate. B. Dome of the Rock, mosque built at the site of Solomon's Temple. C. Ecce Homo arch.
View of Jerusalem, with some of the major pilgrim sites, among which the putative house of Caiaphas (A), the Dome of the Rock (B), Mount Olive (E), and the house in which Judas Iskariot stayed, according to tradition. However, the Holy Sepulchre is not shown.
View of the Holy Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. On the left, a caravan of pilgrims arrives from Istanbul.
Panoramic view of Istanbul, with Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia and the mosques of Sultan Ahmed I and Süleyman I.
View of the bay of Balaklava near Sebastopol, Crimea. In the background, the remains of the Genoese fortress.
Fountain at the remains of church near the sea walls of Topkapi palace in Istanbul. According to the author, the Greek Orthodox of Istanbul would come to the fountain on the feast of the Transfiguration. Several of them would bury themselves in the sand and then drink from the holy fountain, thus realizing a symbolic transfiguration.
View of Istanbul. 1. Heptapyrgion or Yedikule castle 3. Fenerbahçe quarter. 4. Port of Kadiköy. 5-6. Scutari palace. 7. Tower of Leander. 8. Port of Scutari. 9.10 Tophane quarter and street market. 11. Galata and Pera district. 12. Shipyards of Kasımpaşa. 13. New Mosque (Mosque of Valide Sultan) 14. Palace of Porphyrogenitus.
51. The prince heir to the Ottoman throne. On his right, the window through which the Sultan spied on the meetings of the Divan (assembly of Ottoman officials). 52. Plan of the Tower of Leander (bottom right). Plan of mosque (bottom centre). Drawing of minaret (bottom left) and other architectural and decorative features of a mosque (top) 57. Detail from wall decoration of the imperial mosques of Istanbul. 63. Wooden floor of Ottoman house in Istanbul.
