Grand Çamlıca Mosque
Turkey's largest mosque, set on the Asian side's highest hill, with six symbolic minarets.
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This guide to the Grand Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul reads the building as an argument encoded in numbers, from the minaret heights tied to the Battle of Manzikert to the dome measured against Istanbul's traditional seventy-two nations. It follows Bahar Mızrak and Hayriye Gül Totu, the two women architects who won the design competition with an explicit goal of making the mosque more welcoming to women, and the political debate that followed its 2019 opening on Istanbul's highest hill.
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