Comments on: I Met The Other Mersin Aussie

By: battery

battery — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:46:00 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:14:00 +0000

Hi c gizem,

Thank you again for your compliments.

The number of minarets is not strictly limited to 4. The huge, modern Sabanci Mosque in Adana also has 6 minarets.

By: C Gizem

C Gizem — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:42:00 +0000

Joe, it must be a nice feeling to have at last a countrymate in your place, specially if you get along with him well !

I enjoy looking at your pictures, with so many varied subjects : your collection of plastic palmtrees was specially fun and even artistic, in a place where natural (and nicer) palmtrees can grow...

Also interesting, a little further down, (Feb.13), the 2 minarets being added to a mosque that has already 4 of them : I thought that the number of minarets was stricly limited to 4, except for the mosque in Medina that has 6 (or 7 ?) of them, the other exception being in Istanbul (the Blue Mosque), but this was in fact a confusion : the builder understood "alti" instead of "altin" (gold), as the sultan that ordered the mosque wanted the 4 minarets to be gold plated...