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Temple of Apollo in Didyma: View of the End of the Ruin of the Temple from the North-East.

Plan of the Upper Gallery of Hagia Sophia. Illustration of the stages of Muslim prayer. Byzantine coins.

The Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I in Istanbul.

The interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

The interior of Hagia Sophia.

The Upper Gallery in Hagia Sophia.

The interior of the mosque of Sultan Ahmed I.

Turk praying.

Pious Muslim begins his prayer (1) at the call of the Imam (2).

Pious Muslim (3) and Imam (4) kneeling down during their prayers.

Imam and Janissary kneel down to pray.

Pious Muslim and Imam completing their prayers.

Ottoman men praying.

The tomb of Grand Master Robert de Julliac in the Franciscan church which was converted into a mosque, adjacent to the public baths of Rhodes (Yeni Hamam). Muslim people preparing to pray at the mosque.

Turks doing their prayers.

The courtyard of the mosque of Sultan Ahmet I.

The mihrab of the mosque of Sultan Suleiman I. In the foreground pious Ottomans are praying.

View of the exonarthex of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, from the north nave.

View of the north nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. In the background the esonarthex. On the left the Grand Vizier praying.

View of the imperial tribune in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. This tribune stood between the mihrab and the Columns from Ephesus, which were transferred to the imperial capital during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.