Sofia mosque - Banya Bashi
Sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque of stone and brick bands, built over steaming natural hot springs.
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This guide to the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia is about work: the hot springs under the building, the masons and roofers of the fifteen sixties, and the patron who paid for it in memory of his wife. It touches Mimar Sinan, an earthquake that emptied the skyline, and the daily routine of the minaret today. Best heard from the pavement by the mosque's walls, where the ground sometimes steams.
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