Turkey is a land of sun, sea, and history.
As being one of the content resources of our Explore Turkey web site the book covers the most important ancient sites of Anatolia. S leyman the Magnificent ordered a mosque appropriate to his title to be built by the Architect Sinan, whereupon the present mosque was begun on one of the hills dominating the Golden Horn. To ensure the absolute stability of the foundations, upon the bed-rock of the site, three years of preparations were made, and three more years passed in the construction of these foundations. Following these fastidious preparations, the actual construction of the mosque begun. The architect called it a work of his training period.