June's full 'Strawberry Moon' lit up the night sky last night, treating skywatchers to a rare once-in-a-18-year display as it ...

Located on the border with Greece and Bulgaria, Edirne is a city with a more European feel than other Turkish counterparts, but one whose architecture, mosques, bazaars and palace provide a ...

Mosque with modern architecture has a capacity to accommodate over 900 worshippers The new mosque features modern architectural design, covering an area of 738 square metres, with a capacity to ...

This is the site of Edirne’s crown jewel: the Selimiye Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan’s magnum opus. With its vast dome and colourful tile-adorned ...

Visitors are allowed outside prayer hours. If you are travelling in the south east, go to Adana and Sabanci Mosque which is very new. Up in the far north west, the 16th-century Selimiye Mosque in ...

Selimiye mosque in Edirne, once known as Hadrianopolis. Credit: Tevfik Teker, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Edirne, formerly known as Hadrianapolis after Roman Emperor Hadrian, was the Ottoman capital ...

One such wonder is the Blue Mosque, or the Sultan Ahmed Mosque as it is known to locals. The Blue Mosque is a striking memento of Istanbul’s nearly 500-year stint as the imperial capital of the ...

The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, built by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan in the 16th century, is considered one of his masterpieces. With its soaring dome and four towering minarets, the mosque ...

Edirne is one of the best cities in Turkey for its famous mosques. One of the cities that the Ottomans used as a capital before they took Constantinople was the city of Edirne, northwest towards the ...

Edirne’s Old Town district is also a highlight for its Ottoman sites, including the 16th-century Selimiye Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. BY Cleopatra's Pool rests at the summit of ...

with the sound of drums and traditional Turkish flutes accompanying local officials through the streets of Edirne, in the shadow of the comparatively young, 450-year-old Selimiye Mosque.