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Amasya Blue Medrese mosque

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Gök is the color of the sky (or sky itself), the name refers to blue tiles that have mostly gone but adorned the entrance of the 1276 mosque.

This is within the mosque, under the table is what looks like a vent for graves that may be under the ground, or rather the opposite, a sort of funnel to collect rain water. Nobody could explain, I hope to learn it at some time.


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Mutluhan 04-Oct-2006 12:06
vent is a hole, under the table, which is ussed for ablution in a mosque when the weather is bad like rainy etc.