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A caravan departs from Istanbul to the Holy Mosque of Mecca during the Ramadan, with sacred camels and gifts from the Sultan.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bayram, Boats and ships, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Gifts, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim ceremonies, Parades, Pilgrimage to Mecca, Pilgrimages, Ramadan, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Travel, Turkey
Religious ceremony in the Audience Hall of Tokapi Palace on the eve of the Bayram.
Tags: Audience Hall (Arz odası), Bayram, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey
Parade of horses in the Sultans's honour, in the Second Court of Topkapi Palace, on the eve of the Bayram.
Tags: Animals, Bayram, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Golden Horn, Horses, Human types, Imperial stables, Istanbul, Military parades, Mosques, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Ottoman palaces, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Stables, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey
The Grand Vizier offers dinner (Ifter) to other Ottoman officials during the Ramadan.
Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Festivities / Celebrations, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Houses, Human types, Iftar / Ramadan dinner, Interiors, Istanbul, Muslim ceremonies, Ottoman officials, Ramadan, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
The tomb of Valide Sultan Turhan Hatice, mother of Mehmed IV at the mosque of Valide Sultan or New Mosque (Yeni Camii) in Eminönü, Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Books, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eminönü, Funerary monuments, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mausoleums, New Mosque (Yeni Camii / Valide Sultan Camii), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Prayer, Quran, Religious practices, Sultans, Thrace, Tomb of Turhan Hatice Sultan (Istanbul), Turhan Hatice Sultan, Turkey
The public library of Grand Vizier Recip Paşa in Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Books, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Grand Viziers, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Libraries, Library of Recep Paşa (Istanbul), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Quranic inscriptions, Recep Pasha, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
The public library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Istanbul.
Tags: Abdul Hamid I / I. Abdul Hamid, Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Libraries, Library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (Istanbul), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey
Hagia Sophia, Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I (Blue Mosque) and Laleli Mosque, Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Istanbul, Laleli Mosque (Laleli Camii), Mausoleum of Mustafa Paşa III (Istanbul), Mausoleums, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Smoking, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Thrace, Turkey
Official prayer to celebrate the Birth of Prophet Muhammad (Mawlid) in the presence of the Sultan and other supreme officials, at the mosque of Sultan Ahmed, Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Grand Viziers, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Mawlid, Mosques, Muslim prayer, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman officials, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Sultans, Thrace, Turkey
Rites of passage in the Muslim cemetery of Eyüp, Istanbul.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eyüp / byz. Kosmidion, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Muslim cemeteries, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey
Open-air praying site; such sites existed on all big commercial routes in the Ottoman Empire.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Mosques, Muslim prayer, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Turkey
Roman aqueduct on Mount Kastron, Samos island. The aqueduct was connected to the Eupalinian aqueduct or Tunnel of Eupalinos, near the port of Pythagoreion.
Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Eupalinian aqueduct, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Mount Kastro, Natural environment, Pythagoreio, Roman aqueduct of Samos, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Samos, Turks
Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.
Tags: Amrit / anc. Marathos, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Amrit (Syria), Phoenician architecture, Phoenician monuments, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Tombs of Amrit / al Maghazil, Women
Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.
Tags: Amrit / anc. Marathos, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Amrit (Syria), Phoenician architecture, Phoenician monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Tombs of Amrit / al Maghazil
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