المساجد وملاحظات للمسافر المسلم

Six minarets and İznik tiles. Free; tourist access pauses around each prayer and on Friday until early afternoon.

Completed in 537 and a mosque again since 2020. Foreign visitors pay about €25 for the upper-gallery route; the ground floor is for prayer. Children under 8 enter free.

Mimar Sinan’s masterpiece on the third hill, with calm courtyards and Golden Horn views. Sinan’s tomb is by the wall.

The city’s most revered shrine, beside the tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. Busy on Fridays and weekends; dress conservatively.

A small Sinan mosque above the market lanes, lined with some of the finest İznik tiles anywhere. Reach it by stairs from the street.

The Büyük Mecidiye Mosque sits on the water below the Bosphorus Bridge; lovely at dusk and after rain.

The great mosque of Eminönü, beside the Spice Bazaar and ferry piers; an easy prayer stop on a market day.

Reopened in 2024 with its Byzantine mosaics on view upstairs (€20 for foreign visitors, 09:00–18:00); the lower level is for worship.

A 2009 mosque in Üsküdar with an interior by Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, one of very few by a woman designer.

Türkiye’s largest mosque, on a hill above Üsküdar, with wide city views and a museum on site.