Over the past two decades, Turkey has seen a rapid increase in mosque construction. Earlier this year, the country’s largest place of worship – Istanbul’s Camlica Mosque, which can accommodate 63,000 ...

I was with a woman visitor from Ireland and we were standing in the middle of the Galata Bridge in Istanbul earlier this week. I pointed across the waterway of the Bosphorus to the forested hill of ...

Camlica Mosque stands proudly above Istanbul, offering a breathtaking view of the city that bridges Europe and Asia. As one of the largest mosques in Turkey, its elegant domes and soaring minarets ...

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