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I'll be honest. I'd never heard of the Mosque of Rustem Pasa until I went to Istanbul.  I had no idea what I was missing.  Before we begin, let's take a quick look at the beauty that awaits us:

Wow.  Breathtaking, isn't it?

This mosque was built by the Mimar Sinan, architect to Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent and his successors. 

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