Trip to mosque

This is one of the spice markets I think is so charming. They have so many spices I have never even heard of and lots of the same ones I use. Very cool place.

Just a pretty park we found while walking around.

We came across this ceremony at a mosque we were visiting and it looked like a ceremony. Since Du loves talking to anyone he was right in the middle of the soldiers talking to them (or should I say gesturing) and found out it was a change of command. He was very excited to see this and so we sat in the hot day for about an hour to watch this.

The prayer thing went off and several men came out of the mosque and then to our amazement out came to coffins. We had misunderstood and what we were witnessing was a military funeral of a Colonel and a General. We had looked in our Turkey/English books for the word for congratulations. We were very releived we had not said that to anyone yet.

There were hundreds of these very intricate stained glass windows in this mosque.

You can see be comparison of the tiny people on the floor how massive this amazing mosque is. They say it is one of the largest in the world. The globe chandelier is the focal point and if you look closely there is a cirle around it of smaller globe chandeliers. You can also see the stained glass windows around the sides.

This is a closer view of the chandelier.

Outside in the day of this beautiful mosque. We had gone on a 5 mile hike to find this mosque, as we don't have a car here, and when we found it realized that if we had gone a different direction it was actually only half a mile from where we lived. So we did visit it again.

This picture was taken at night. I had read somewhere that the Bountiful Temple was the worst at light polution. I don't think so.....This was lit up with huge beacons all the way around it and it is massive and beautiful.