A Miracle in Stone, Brick, and Ceramics, Part 8: One Last Look at the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ("Blue Mosque"), Istanbul, Turkey (AD 1616)

In this final shot of the set, we're still facing the semidome featured in the previous photo. But now we're glancing up higher, at the crest of one of the four pointed arches that support the main dome. Portions of two pendentives, one of them washed in sunlight, are also visible.

And once again there's all that beautiful and geologically significant İznik Tile, manufactured from clays apparently mined in or near the eponymous lakeside city situated not far from the eastern end of the Sea of Marmara. Behind it and out of sight, forming the great mosque's walls and piers, are immese quantities of Miocene-epoch Bakırköy Limestone and locally produced brick. More proof, if you need it, that our most heavenly structures are built of the earthliest materials.

To see the other photos and descriptions in this series, visit my Architectural Geology: Turkey album.

Taken in: Turkey / Istanbul / Sultanahmet (show map)

Taken on: November 4, 1976

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Camera: MAKER NAME 96660, ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

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