Hello everyone! In today's video we want to show you one of the newest
attractions here in the city and that is called the Çamlıca Mosque. As well
we would like to show you how to come here with the easiest and the quickest way by
bus from the Asian side because this one is situated in one of the highest hills of Istanbul
Once you have arrived to Üsküdar by ferry from
Eminonu or any other port in the european side, you can take the bus number 15 C
right across the street next to a mosque.
After 25 minutes approximately you will
get off at the bus stop called Büyük Çamlıca Camii.
Just across the street the Çamlıca Mosque is located.
This mosque is the largest one in all Turkey
and it was opened from worshiping back in May of 2019.
Its construction took about six years and the total cost was of sixty six point five million dollars
This place can be easily seen from every corner of the city right on top of the
highest hill of Istanbul on the Asian side of the city.
This complex also includes a Museum of Turkish Islamic art, an art gallery, a library and a conference hall.
The interior has a capacity of hosting 25,000 people but up to 63,000 people
can pray at the same time.
It's design was inspired by the works of Mimar Sinan
a legendary Ottoman-era architect who built beautiful mosques in Istanbul
and many other cities in Turkey. Although this place is attracting many tourists
it also has been part of controversial and divided opinions among the Turkish
citizens considering it was an unnecessary project.
After visiting the Çamlıca Mosque you will have the option of coming to
this park.This park is is located very close to the mosque and either you
can take a taxi, the taxi will drop you off directly in the entrance or also you
can take a minibus but unfortunately the mini buses won't drop you off on the
entrance.They will leave you about 600 or 700 meters away from this park and
you still have to walk up the hill.It's not very tiring so I think you can do that.
It will cost you less than 3 turkish liras per person coming here.
Now the entrance fee to this park is totally free.
Here you will find many restaurants, many cafes where you can sit around and you can have some
some coffee some drinks or even some breakfast.
Here in the park you will see many local families especially on Sunday mornings and also many
tourists are coming here to take awesome pictures because this place have been
very famous in the past months for Instagram spots.
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