A few More
Blue Mosque Istanbul
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Blue Mosque Interior
Hand held on B flicked the button & hoped – hence shake
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Central Turkey
Goreme Cappadocia
Worth Googling & Visiting
Settlement Dates back millennia – region is soft volcanic rock which has been carved out to form houses, monasteries, nunneries – supposedly early Christians but I suspect settlement took place earlier.
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View from a rock dwelling –
Had to climb up a vertical shaft to get in then found a large boulder there which could be rolled over the shaft for protection against invaders. The boulder must have been carved inside the room. Some rooms had beds & seats carved out.
The rock is easily carved – you can pick up a stick & carve away.
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Nearby are subterranean cities holding 10,000 & more inhabitants all carved out of the rock – they keep discovering new cities. At the time of this trip only 2 were open to tourist / public. One city was a random maze of tunnels and rooms, the other was later period, more geometric, cubic, with churches cruciform on plan. Sometimes we found ourselves crawling through narrow air shafts instead of main avenues.
Interior shot of carved out church
Hand held on B flicked the button & hoped
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