aka "The Blue Mosque", Istanbul
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Built between 1607 and 1617 (about the time of the Jamestown Settlement and Pocahontas but before the Pilgrims) during the reign of Sultan Ahmed I on the site of the Byzantine Emperor's seat at the Byzantine Hippodrome. Ahmed died shortly after the building was completed. Restoration was completed in 2023.

I may not care for their religion but some of their architecture ...

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