Day 57 Istanbul
The first stop on our eastern Mediterranean cruise on the Holland America Oosterdam. We arrived on a Muslim holiday and the crowds were overwhelming.
- Demokrasi ve Özgürlükler Island
- Hagia Sophia
- Suleymaniye Mosque
- Nusretiye Mosque
- Karakoy Police Station
- Galata Tower
- Yeni Cami Mosque
- Wudu pruification ritual
- women behind the divider
- men nearer god in front of the divider
- Blue Mosque
- Ibraham, Sato’s Cafe
- one of several thousand rug merchants
- near Hagia Sofia
- Fountain Sultan Ahmed III
- the line for Hagia Sofia
- Hagia Sophia
- Love is where you find it
- Topkapi Palace
- Çamlıca Mosque
- Blue Mosque
- Çamlıca Mosque
- Bosphorus Bridge
- Blue Mosque
- Pride
- Grand Mecidiye Mosque
- Ortaköy Mosque