It seems that I have not yet spoken about mosques or the prayers of the Turks. I have had the opportunity to see both of them many times. Can't you imagine anything more reverent than a Turk's during prayers? all his movements are noble, important, and signified by the same feeling to which prayer calls. Whether standing on the flasks, or prostrate, he always prays with fervor, without however violating his importance. He is motionless, immersed in contemplation! Nothing can distract him from prayer. The majestic simplicity of the temple reminds him of the presence of the Almighty, before whom he prostrates himself. There are no statues or paintings in the mosques; The only thing decorated there are gilded boards, on which several verses from Alcoran are written. When the Turks conquered the Eastern Empire, they turned the radiant and great churches of Christ into mosques. Then, when they decided to build new buildings themselves, without having any understanding of architecture, they immediately imitated what was before their eyes, and borrowed from the conquered the plan and location for their mosques, and even baths and bazaars. In Brousse, in Constantinople, all the great mosques are nothing more than imitators, greater or more perfect, Saint Sophsh; only the minarets have been added.
Mosques are divided into three categories: first, the Sultanekch mosques, which are located only in the ancient cities of the state, such as Brus, Adranopol, Kaprof, Constantinople5, and so on. There are 44 of them. They are generally large, and are usually surrounded by an extensive fence, separate from everyone else. Second category: mosques built by private people; there are up to 200 of them in Constantinople. Third category: LGesjidi, a type of chapels: there are up to 300 of these. 16 RN Around the Sultan’s mosques, charitable or generally useful institutions are usually built, such as imarets, or hotels, houses for the mentally deprived, schools, libraries, crypts in which mortal remains are buried Sultanoz or zlenov their famimi. Here it is appropriate to mention the Eyyub Mosque, in which the Sultans are crowned.
Under Mohammed Nm, there was one sheikh who played the role of a prophet. The Sultan taught him to convene the people to St. Sophia and there to proclaim WHAT the rightful 3rd Jubilee, a contemporary and disciple of the Prophet Mohammed, had predicted to him, the one who predicted to one of the Constantines that his kingdom would fall, the capital would be conquered by Sultan Mohammed, and this Sultan would forever expel the Roman Emperors, to establish his power in Constantinople and spread Islamism throughout the EU, or lie to Alkoran. "Eyyub said, adding more necks, that it was kept intact, and that no matter how much the unseen tried to hide the place where it was located, he would reveal it to him. The Sultan immediately ordered to go, and he himself solemnly went to look for the mbeto where Eyyub lies. They came to that part of the city, which is now called by the name of this imaginary prophet, and began to dig in untouched, it seemed, there was no construction. A large coffin was dug quite deep into the ground, with the inscription: “Here lies Eyub Ensara, faithful friend, adviser and apostle of God; In the coffin lay a body, indeed, completely preserved. In delight, with joyful cries, they proclaimed a new miracle. Mohammed immediately decorated the magnificent tomb, built a mosque, and a public school attached to it.
On the destroyed church of St. The Apostles have now built what appears to be the Mosque of Mohammed II. It has the best and largest baths in Constantinople. The Turks call them: Tunkur-Gamam (small bathhouse). There are three huge halls, paved with marble, receiving light, like the Rome Pantheon, from above, from the dome.
I will not talk about all the mosques: many travelers have described them, and I mentioned the mosques of Eyyub and Mohammed T only because they are especially memorable: the Sultans are crowned in the first, and its glory is based on. false prophecies and on a false belief, invented by Mohammed Pm, for the people, then almost wild and barbaric. Another mosque is curious in a different way: it occupies the place of the glorious Church of St. Apostles, which was built in beauty with the Church of St. Sofsh. However, many still doubt whether this was the exact site of this famous temple?