“Lala-Tulip” prayer hall: a masterpiece of architecture and painting
“Lala-Tulip” is a mosque that has the mostprayer room in the republic. At the same time, up to three hundred people can be in the hall, and taking into account the balconies that are designed for women, the number of worshipers can reach up to half a thousand.
The hall itself is made, as in most mosques, in theoriental style. It is characterized by a so-called vegetative ornament, the elements of which are present both on the walls of the room and on the stained-glass windows. This ornament symbolizes paradise trees and sets up a deep and sincere prayer.
In the facing of the walls, the main role is played by the coil andThe most beautiful, brought from the Mediterranean marble. The floor is covered with oriental carpets, under which you can find ceramic plates. From the ceiling, crystal chandeliers hang, which gives the hall an accentuated solemnity.
Blue Mosque Opening Hours 2024
Blue Mosque opening hours are between 08:30 in the morning and 18:00 in the evening as of 2024. Like all mosques in Istanbul, it is closed during prayer times. Information on visiting hours was last updated on February 15, 2023.
The best time to visit the mosque is between 08:30 and 11:30 in the morning. The Mosque would be open between these specific hours, regardless of summer or winter. However, after 12:00, it is possible to come across the noon prayer in some periods of the year.
I don’t think it will be a problem for you if the mosque is temporarily closed because there are many things to do in Sultanahmet. You can spend your time shopping at Arasta Bazaar or photographing the columns in the Hippodrome.
However, you can find out exactly what hours it may be closed from the prayer times on the official page of religious affairs. When looking at the prayer time schedule, keep in mind that the mosque will be closed before the adhan (call to prayer) is called.
Big mosques such as the Blue Mosque and Suleymaniye Mosque are closed one hour before the prayer and are prepared for those who will come to worship. For example, if the noon prayer (Dhuhr) is displayed as 13:00, the mosque may be closed between 12:00 and 13:30.
The external characteristic of the mosque
The mosque “Lala-Tulip”, the photo of which isa tasty morsel for any guest of the capital of Bashkortostan, is a truly grandiose structure. This is a stone building with a height of more than twenty meters, which is basically a square with an area of 2500 square meters. It is based on a powerful reinforced concrete foundation, which extends deep into the earth for several meters.
Despite the monumental nature of the structure,From afar the mosque looks extremely light, as if floating in the air. The light walls of the main building and minarets are gradually turning into bright pink tops, as if trying to tear themselves away from the ground and rush upward. The entrance to the mosque is located at the level of the third floor.
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Things to Do Around the Mosque
Things to do around the Blue Mosque include visiting museums, shopping in historical bazaars, and relaxing with a massage in a traditional Turkish bath. All of these are within walking distance of the mosque and can keep you busy if you come across a time window when the mosque is closed.
In the photo above, you can see the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia side by side in the same photo. The area seen in the photo is Sultanahmet, the most popular tourist center of Istanbul. All of the 5 places I recommend below are located in this area.
1. Hippodrome
The Hippodrome was the place where chariot races were held during the Byzantine period. About 50 thousand people watched the races in the most important stadium of Constantinople.
The Hippodrome is also known as Sultanahmet Square today. In this square, which is right next to the mosque, you can see the 3500-year-old Obelisk of Theodosius (aka Egyptian Obelisk) and the 2500-year-old Serpent Column.
2. Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Turkish and Islamic Art Museum is a place to complete your experience at the Blue Mosque. Here you can see works from the Caliphates, Seljuks and Ottomans periods. This museum is adjacent to the Hippodrome.
This building was the palace of Pargali Ibrahim Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) of Sultan Suleiman in the 16th century. Today, it is a museum where you can see Turkish carpets and handwritten Qurans.
3. Arasta Bazaar
Arasta Bazaar is an open-air bazaar located right next to the Blue Mosque. This bazaar is similar to the other historical bazaars in the city such as Spice Bazaar and Grand Bazaar.
You can find many shops selling Turkish carpets, Iznik tiles and Turkish delight in the Arasta Bazaar. There is also a shop called Jenifer’s Hamam, famous for its quality Turkish towels.
4. Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Hammam
Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Hammam is located in the large park between the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. Dating to the 16th century, this bath is also the most luxurious Turkish bath in Istanbul.
The most important feature of this bath is that it was built by Hurrem Sultan, the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, the most famous Ottoman ruler in history. In addition, the architect of the building is Mimar Sinan, whose name we have mentioned above.
5. Great Palace Mosaic Museum
The Great Palace Mosaic Museum is a place where floor mosaics from the Great Palace, which was the residence of the emperors in the Roman and Byzantine periods, are exhibited.
I mentioned in the article that the Blue Mosque rises on the ruins of the Great Palace. Although nothing has survived from the palace, mosaics decorating one of its courtyards were found. You can reach the museum by passing through the Arasta Bazaar.
Architecture of the Blue Mosque
The architecture of the Blue Mosque resembles the style of the famous Ottoman architect Sinan. The plan of the mosque was inspired by the Sehzade Mosque, which was built in the heart of the Historical Peninsula in the 1540s by Mimar Sinan.
The most distinctive feature of the mosque is that the number of minarets, which was 4 in other royal mosques, was increased to 6. In addition, the lower half-domes surrounding the central dome offer an aesthetic appearance.
Right next to the mosque, there is a courtyard whose dimensions are the same as the interior of the mosque. Thus, the capacity of the mosque doubles in the summer months.
Of course, the main reason why the name of the “Sultan Ahmed Mosque” is called the Blue Mosque is the interior decoration of the building. The elements that adorn the 45-meter-high dome and the 4 giant columns (elephant feet) that carry it make the mosque unique.
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Security guards – minarets
The first thing that catches your eye when you look atThe mosque “Lala-Tulip” is a striking similarity of its minarets with the same flower. As you know, minarets play a special role in the architectural appearance of any mosque. Formerly once guard towers, they now give the whole structure a special flavor.
The Lala-Tulip mosque has two impressiveThe minarets are located on either side of the main building. If the building itself is reminiscent of a flower that has already blossomed, then the side towers, from which prayers are pronounced each evening, resemble still unblown buds.
The height of each tower reaches 33 meters, and theypractically visible from almost any part of the city. Especially picturesque is the whole structure at sunset, when the mosque seems to dissolve in the rays of the setting sun.
The activities of the mosque in our days
The mosque “Lala-Tulip” from the very beginningactivity was not limited solely to the role of the cult building. At present, it is the leading cultural and educational center of the Republic of Bashkortostan, whose activities are conducted in several directions at once.
Firstly, it is, of course, carrying outreligious services. During major Muslim holidays, the mosque becomes the center of pilgrimage not only for residents of the republic, but also for guests from other regions of Russia.
Second, there is a systematiceducational process. In addition to the madrassas mentioned above, the mosque until 2005 hosted the Russian Islamic University, the teachers of which conducted an enormous amount of work on drawing up methodological aids for Muslim schools and madrassas.
Thirdly, Lala-Tulip often performsa platform at which various conferences, exhibitions, debates and discussions are held. Convenient and roomy conference hall over the past decades has witnessed a multitude of cultural and scientific events.
Finally, fourth, the mosque often occursmeetings and negotiations of political and religious figures of the highest rank. The atmosphere of this institution, as eyewitnesses and participants in these meetings say, has a constructive conversation and signing mutually beneficial contracts.
Interior of the Blue Mosque
The interior of the Blue Mosque is covered with Iznik tiles, the pinnacle of Ottoman pottery. These tiles with blue, turquoise and pale red colors became famous in the 16th century. While the whole city was equipped with palaces, mosques and tombs, tile workshops pushed their limits.
While the walls are covered with tiles, the ceilings are decorated with handmade pencil works. These paintings starts from the top of the columns and extends to the dome. The main purpose of these eye-catching works of art is to remove the cumbersomeness created by the giant columns.
As can be seen from the photos of the Blue Mosque, the most distinctive colors in the pencil work are blue, green, red and yellow. However, since the most dominant color among them is blue, it creates a unity with the blue tiles on the wall.
In addition to the pencil works and tiles, the calligraphy adorning the walls is also noteworthy. These works, which were made by the most skilled calligraphers of the period, mostly contain passages from the holy book, the Qur’an.
“Lala-Tulip” – a mosque-madrasah
The main mosque of Bashkortostan is not onlya building where services and prayers take place, this is one of the largest madrasahs in the republic. Madrassah is nothing more than a religious educational institution where senior students learn the basics of Muslim teaching.
The first such institutions appeared in the northAfrica back in the year 859, and in Russia, during the times of the empire, several madrasas were built in Kazan, Ufa and Bukhara. The main educational disciplines of these educational institutions include studying the history of Islam, reading and commenting on the Quran, understanding the Arabic language and Sharia.
Madrassa “Lala-Tulip” refers to that typeeducational institutions, which corresponds to the Orthodox theological seminary. After passing through the training, graduates have the opportunity to enter higher education institutions, where future priests are preparing. In total, the madrasah’s classrooms are designed for one hundred people.
Project-winner V. Davletshina
A lot of projects were submitted for the competition,the winner of which was the project “Lala-Tulip”, proposed by the local architect V. Davletshin. It was this flower that was chosen not by chance. The thing is that the tulip in Islam is a symbol of Allah, and often its designation is used instead of the name of God. The attitude to this flower among the Muslims is extremely shaky, that’s why almost all the residents of Bashkiria warmly supported this idea of the architect.
Originally, the mosque was planned to open in 1989year, when the 1100 years of the adoption of Islam by the peoples of the Volga region and the Urals were celebrated with great scope, however, it was not possible to implement the conceived. The “Lala-Tulip” mosque, the history of its creation, became a kind of symbol of those processes that took place in our country in the late 1980s-1990s. years of collapse and economic disruption slowed down the construction, so the operating mosque entered the structure in 1998.
History of the Blue Mosque
The history of the Blue Mosque dates back to the early 1600s. The mosque was built by Sultan Ahmed I in the Sultanahmet area, the core of Old Istanbul. Contrary to popular belief, the mosque is not the largest mosque in Istanbul.
During the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the sultans built a mosque on each hill of the city. During the 15th and 16th centuries, a mosque was built on each of the 7 hills on which Old Istanbul is located.
However, since Hagia Sophia was located on the first hill that formed the core of the city, no sultan had thought of building a mosque there until the 17th century. One of the main reasons for this was that there were too many buildings in the Sultanahmet area, which forms the core of Istanbul.
Ahmed I, who ascended the throne in the 1600s, wanted to build an iconic mosque bearing his name. But all the hills of the city had mosques of his predecessors. So he decided to build a mosque across from Hagia Sophia.
Expropriation procedures have started in the area next to the Hippodrome. Many houses and shops were bought by the state and destroyed. Thus, the necessary space was opened for the construction of the Blue Mosque.
In the place where the mosque rises, there was the “Great Palace”, where the emperors lived in the Roman and Byzantine periods. This palace, which had huge courtyards, extended to the sea shore.
This palace, which was on the verge of extinction in the later Byzantine period, was abandoned by the last Byzantine emperors. The last Byzantine rulers had lived in the Palace of Blachernae on the shores of the Golden Horn.
When the Ottomans built the Topkapi Palace for themselves, this area was filled with other structures over time. Ahmed I, on the other hand, destroyed most of these structures and started the construction of the Blue Mosque in 1609.
The mosque, built by the architect Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, was completed in 7 years. The sultan, who died at an early age, was able to enjoy his mosque for only one year. However, the mosque he left behind is one of the most visited historical buildings in Istanbul today.
The mosque “Lala-Tulip”: how it all began
Dream of a large mosque that could becomea real cultural and educational center of Ufa and the whole of Bashkortostan, originated with the local residents and the leadership of the republic in the mid-1980s. As with any of its other projects, the Bashkirs approached the design of the main cult structure extremely thoroughly.
One of the main issues at the initial stagepreparation was the choice of a place for the future mosque. After long disputes and all sorts of discussions the leadership of the republic was allocated a rather impressive plot of land in the park area on the banks of the Belaya River. The picturesque landscape was to become that external decoration, which would emphasize the finest diamond.
The first and second floors of the mosque: severity, solemnity, brevity
The first and second floors of the mosque are not designed forvisiting a large number of visitors. It is here that there is a madrasah, in which there is a spacious hostel, a large library and a dining room. On the territory of the madrasah there is also a conference hall for meetings, in which there can be 130 people at the same time.
The first floor is given for various business premises, here there are sports and fitness halls for khudashteli madrasah, as well as a sauna and a sauna.
On the second floor there are comfortable rooms forvisitors. There is also a special room where the bride and groom pass the marriage ceremony, and the children born are the name of the naming ceremony. In the same hall, the local muhtasibat meets regularly. All rooms are designed in a simple style, where all items have their own specific purposes.
