Yesterday in Beyazit

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets...it is written..

"Spiders flee before the Basilisk for it is their mortal enemy"

J.K Rowling knows that something scares spider..in our real life..what spiders flee from is this:


Can u guess what it is..this is an Ostrich egg.It is hung all over the Suleymaniye camii (Suleymaniye mosque) in beyazit...Yup..Suleymaniye camii is one of the camii s where tourists normally go.It was built in 1557..it is also among the ones we normally hang around if we follow halil to his uni (besides shopping of course!!) ...our meeting place u can say it..

Halil has done me the honour of snapping these photos for u all to see..i know these photos has done no justice to the beauty of the camii..well..this is the best our handphone can snap..hopefully it will give u the general idea of what a camii looks like in istanbul..though seeing all the camiis urself is something else..it will catch ur breath..the splendour of the architecture is....to see is to be impressed..


One of the feature that i like about the camii in turkey is this..

This is the carpet of the camii...in all camiis in turkey, the carpets will have the pattern of the praying mat (Sejadah) . Therefore, if u enter the camii, u wont be needing to lay down ur sejadah..it is there already..in the form of the carpet...by the way, do u know that turkish carpets are famous as well?

And not forgetting..these r the pics pf us..inside n outside the camii area..

Ni nak cerita kisah sejarah la ni..


ni my abang sayang yg cerita.. batu kat atas nii..ni bukan batu biasa..masa zaman pembinaan masjid ni dulu..ada satu negara beragama *K* dia orang telah menghadiahkan satu batu ni (kat gambar) kat sultan utk guna masa pembinaan masjid. Nasib baik la si tukang jurutera ni terperasan yg dlm batu ni ada tanda palang.. gamaknya dlm batu tu depa ada letakkan tanda tu sebab nak sabotaj kesucian agama islam kot .. jadi jurutera tu buat apa tau tak? dia letakkan batu tu kat salah satu entrance utk masuk kat masjid ni .. kawasan masjid tapi bukan dalam masjid..jadi utk orang yg nak masuk kawasan masjid ni..diaorang akan masuk dlm memijak tanda tu..

disclaimer: saya tidak memusuhi orang beragama lain..saya menghormati agama lain..kawan kawan saya pon ada yg beragam lain..ini cuba cerita sejarah yg benar..jangan mare..


And as for lunch..we had......yup! the typical turkish most traditional food!!
Kuru fasulye (beans cooked in tomato sauce) and ekmek (turkish bread)
Yesterday..was a great outing..but i am puffed out..even still..tapi disebabkan tak nak cerita basi..i gagahkan jugak bangun nak type benda ni....n nope..i am not finished with the house.. i learned the guests will be coming on the 8th..so i have till one more week to work my magic on the house.. :0) hopefully i can sleep 5 more minutes after this..i am sleepy.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz