A corner of an old mosque in Constantinople It is lucky this is not an earthquake region or minarets would topple on Turkish heads at prayer.

Many of the mosques of Constantinople were formerly Christian churches. There is a belief among the Christians that when the old frescoes of Saint Sophia appear again through their coating of Turkish paint, the city will fall to Christian hands In the late afternoon the setting sun silhouettes these giant toothpicks or minarets against the eastern sky making the city from the sea fairyland of beauty.

Turkish graveyard art. This picture was taken in the graveyard back of the Mohammedan mosque in Skoplje, Serbia. Note the peculiar tombstones. The one in the center is mounted with a sculptures fezz, the prescribed headgear for all true believers in the Koran. In this city of the Balkans there are as many Turks as Christians. They received an equal share with everyone else in the distribution of American Red Cross relief supplies, which led them to write a letter of thanks to the Red Cross headquarters regarding the American organization's policy of recognizing "neither race nor creed" in its humanitarianism

More awakening of the Turks. New motor fire apparatus to replace the hand pump and runners of ancient times. The first day this was used after the Allied withdrawal, it passed through a couple of houses on a street corner A typical porter or hamal of Constantinople ; Five times daily priests or Hoxhas mount these minarets, appear on the balcony and call in wierd [i.e., weird] the faithful to prayer.

[The ablution fountain at the Eyüp Sultan Camii (mosque)] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Constantinople, Turkey. Mosque of the Six Minarets, photographed by the American Red Cross

Prizrend. An old Turkish Mosque used as a warehouse by the American Red Cross

A corner of an old mosque in Constantinople It is lucky this is not an earthquake region or minarets would topple on Turkish heads at prayer.

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Photographs show a fountain? at a mosque and a minaret near a street, Istanbul, Turkey.

On page: no. 1496 (top image) and no. 1498 (bottom image).
In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [128].
Negative series code written on page: C262.
Copyright by Carpenter's World Travels.
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1923

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Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924, photographer

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Silahtarağa (Istanbul, Turkey), 41.06667, 28.93333

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