{"id":43486,"date":"2011-09-05T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=43486"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:04:16","slug":"king-visits-sultan-othman-ahmed-mosque-and-islamic-museum-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/09\/05\/king-visits-sultan-othman-ahmed-mosque-and-islamic-museum-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"King visits Sultan Othman Ahmed mosque and Islamic museum in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43489\" title=\"photo2_6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo2_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo2_6.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo2_6-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>Istanbul, Sept 4 (BNA) His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa today toured as part of his visit to Turkey the Sultan Ahmed mosque (Blue Mosque) accompanied by the Turkish President\u2019s senior advisor Ersat Hurmuzlu and ambassador Hussain Adin from the President\u2019s office. During his visit His Majesty the King conducted afternoon prayer at the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Following his prayer, His Majesty was briefed on the historic role played by the mosque that is considered one of the most famous in Turkey and a great tourist site that was constructed in the sixth century during the reign of Sultan Othman Ahmed I. The mosque is located in Sultan Ahmed area in Istanbul and was famously known as the Blue Mosque getting its name from its blue decorative patterns on the four pillars of the mosque\u2019s wall. His Majesty also saw the golden religious scholar\u2019s praying area (Mahrib).<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty the King then visited the Turkish Islamic Museum and toured its various sections that contained historic Islamic artifacts and the Prophet\u2019s (PBU) belongings. Moreover, he also say the sword of the prophet and the honourable Caliph\u2019s and the key of the Kaaba along with other artifacts. At the conclusion of the visit, His Majesty extended his thanks and appreciation on the efforts exerted by Turkey towards preserving these precious historic Islamic artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>via Bahrain News Agency | King visits Sultan Othman Ahmed mosque and Islamic museum in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Sept 4 (BNA) His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa today toured as part of his visit to Turkey the Sultan Ahmed mosque (Blue Mosque) accompanied by the Turkish President\u2019s senior advisor Ersat Hurmuzlu and ambassador Hussain Adin from the President\u2019s office. During his visit His Majesty the King conducted afternoon prayer at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":43489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,2939],"tags":[6873],"class_list":["post-43486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahrain","category-cultureart","tag-turkish-islamic-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}