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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Istanbul >> Mosques - Camiler >> Non-Sinan >> Hagia Sophia aka Ayasofya >> Apse part of Hagia Sophia > Istanbul december 2009 6882.jpg
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16-DEC-2008

Istanbul december 2009 6882.jpg

One of several pictures where I show the apse and the conch above it, in which there is a mosaic of the Virgin with Child, I show that elsewhere. I kind of "zoom in" towards the prayer niche that now is in the centre of this area. To the right you can see on the first picture a part of the minbar (Arabic: منبر‎‎, also romanized as minibar or mimber) is a pulpit in the mosque where the imam (prayer leader) stands to deliver sermons.

Nikon D3
1/60s f/5.6 at 16.0mm iso4000 full exif

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